Chosen Quotes

“You know how it is with cats: They don't really have owners, they have staff.”
― P.C. Cast, Chosen

“Nuns freak me out.”
― P.C. Cast, Untamed

“Die Dorkamese Twins.”
― P.C. Cast, Untamed

“There’s glory and honour in being chosen. But not much room for free will”
― Elizabeth Wein, Code Name Verity

“When one has come to explore the ' instant moment ' and one has chosen to savor the delights of life, which are hidden behind the curtain of haste and superficiality, then ' mental time ' is replacing ' sequential time '. So ' here ' and ' now ' are keeping hustle and impatience in check. (" Just for a moment ")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“We want life to make sense. If we don’t find meaning and orientation, we are bound to fabulate a living and invent an inspiring life story. When we write out a chosen script, we’ll have to make time to hunker down into attuning it to the hitches of the road map, time and again, with fractious patience. ( "Everybody his story" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Oh, Zoeybird, did I call your mother's husband a damn turd monkey outloud?'
'Yes, Grandma, you did.'
She looked at me, her dark eyes sparkling. 'Good.”
― P.C. Cast, Chosen

“There is no one true church, no one chosen people.”
― Terry Tempest Williams, Leap

“Othalas: Chosen don't choose themselves!”
― Robert Fanney

“I guess when someone tells you something they they usually guard, you feel privileged, not because you know something no-one else knows, but because you feel chosen. You feel like that person wants her life to intersect with yours. I think that's what felt best about it.”
― Markus Zusak, Getting the Girl

“Well, I'm your man. I'm the bloody bastard you wanted when you had me spawned. I'm your tool, and what difference does it make if I hate the part of me that you most need? What difference does it make that when the little serpents killed me in the game, I agreed with them, and was glad.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“...this refinement and delicacy were what Cale adored; but Cale had been beaten into shape, hammered in dreadful fires of fear and pain. How could she be with him for long? A secret part of Arbell had been searching for some time for a way to leave her lover—although she was unaware of this, it is only fair to record. And so as Cale waited for her to save him while he worked out a way of saving her, she had already chosen the bitter but reasonable path of the good, of the many over the one...”
― Paul Hoffman, The Left Hand of God

“The Ph.D is one of the chosen who know that some things can never be fathomed, no matter how hard you try. What good are explanations? There is no possibility of explaining how such a work [Mozart's Requiem, in the instance] could ever have come into being. (The same holds true for certain poems, which should not be analyzed either.)”
― Elfriede Jelinek, The Piano Teacher

“Who was this stranger, and why had I chosen him, of all the men in this city, this country, the world, to be my saviour?”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

“We needed a symbol into which to pour our fear and mistrust of the world, and we have chosen the wolf, and chosen it with passion and commitment.”
― Katherine Rundell, Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures

“We need to perceive ourselves as the special race.
If not, beasts will perceive themselves as the chosen.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

“We do not wish harm or destruction on you,” said Yekini. “At least, not us three. But I’m not sure how we can help you in your quest. As you can see, we are incapacitated ourselves.”

Understandable, said Omíwálé. But you must remember: it is fate that has brought us together, not me. Each one of us here has somehow tasked themselves with making our world better than it is—helping a people divided by time and tales come together. What are we if not called and chosen?”
― Suyi Davies Okungbowa, Lost Ark Dreaming

“Identifying yourself solely by your sickness limits the narrative of your life. Break free from the shackles of illness, embracing the truth that you are loved, chosen, and empowered.”
― Sue Detweiler, Healing Rain

“I was forced to pick her as my chosen, but she continues to choose me every day. And that is what I call heaven. Because life without her wold be hell.”
― Shantel Tessier, The Ritual

“If you have a hard time believing that God chose you, it’s probably because you haven’t chosen you.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Maybe we were chosen because in being chosen we were granted the power to choose another who needed to be chosen worse than we did.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“For their was no finer family than the one you had chosen yourself.”
― M.A. Kuzniar, Upon a Frosted Star

“GOD chooses according to your abilities and though he knows you and what you are capable of under certain circumstances, he protects you and provides provisions.”
― Niedria D. Kenny

“There is no place too deep and too dark
to conceal a person from the eye of destiny.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, These Words Burn Like Fire

“Many are called, but few are chosen. The intelligent are the chosen ones.”
― Egbearor Favour

“He saw me as I was, and still he seemed to be choosing me. It was a basic thing, but I had never in my life been chosen before. You understand what that means? I'm saying here was this stranger, clearly as crazy as I was, this person who dropped into my life out of nowhere, and he was reaching out his hand. What could I do but take it? What could I do but choose him back?”
― Dawnie Walton, The Final Revival of Opal & Nev

“Isn’t that all identity is? The face the world lets you wear, the voice it doesn’t question, the name it echoes back without a stutter.”
― Arabella Sveinsdottir, Returning My Face: A Chilling Sci-Fi Thriller Where Someone Wants to Erase You and Live the Life They Always Wanted

“When God says you're chosen, stop waiting on people to agree with what Heaven already approved.”
― Dr. Angela L. Hood

“But the ocean chose you, and I believe you were chosen because of who you are--- not despite it."
Moana's chest tightened. She thought of the first time she'd waded into the ocean's tide. The memory was hazy after the years, but she could still remember the shape of the pretty shell she'd found--- and the turtle on the sand she'd chosen to help, instead of claiming that shell for herself. Only then had the ocean's waves revealed the glimmering heart.
"Maybe you're right."
"Of course I am." Afā grinned, and Moana saw a flash of her father in him. They had the same self-assured grin, the same brazen spirit. "We can't let our mistakes define us, right?" Moana sniffed at the familiar words as Afā went on. "I look at you and I see so much strength and pride--- and I know you're not a failure, so don't forget who you are.”
― Keala Kendall, How Far I'll Go

“I don’t wait to be loved — I receive it.”
― Kristy Reibel, Chosen. Loved. Enough.: The Luxe Journal of Self - Worth and Sovereign Love