Chosen Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

P.C. Cast
“Our Z's been fucking Loren Blake.”
P.C. Cast, Chosen

P.C. Cast
“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

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

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

Markus Zusak
“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

Orson Scott Card
“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

Elfriede Jelinek
“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

Toba Beta
“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

Koki Oyuke
“Why don’t you believe that I chose you? Why do you always feel the need to choose yourself? "
— God”
Koki Oyuke, Chosen Not Cheated: Discover God's Goodness Through Life's Detours, Denials and Doubts

Koki Oyuke
“Destiny is a map that lights up with every step you take.”
Koki Oyuke, Chosen Not Cheated: Discover God's Goodness Through Life's Detours, Denials and Doubts

Koki Oyuke
“God can’t bless who you pretend to be. His promises, His blessings need your fingerprint and DNA.”
Koki Oyuke, Chosen Not Cheated: Discover God's Goodness Through Life's Detours, Denials and Doubts

Koki Oyuke
“Fame comes and goes in waves. So we hold our breath and hope to not get carried away.”
Koki Oyuke, Chosen Not Cheated: Discover God's Goodness Through Life's Detours, Denials and Doubts

Koki Oyuke
“I heard God tell me, “The very things you think you did right are the very things you did wrong.”
Koki Oyuke, Chosen Not Cheated: Discover God's Goodness Through Life's Detours, Denials and Doubts

Koki Oyuke
“In a world of fame, followers, likes and paparazzi, we need to aspire to be something other than popular.”
Koki Oyuke, Chosen Not Cheated: Discover God's Goodness Through Life's Detours, Denials and Doubts

Koki Oyuke
“I think the beautiful ones are here with us It’s you, and me. And we’re only invisible because the world’s not looking yet...”
Koki Oyuke, Chosen Not Cheated: Discover God's Goodness Through Life's Detours, Denials and Doubts

Koki Oyuke
“Be sloppy. Commit to learning in front of others. The world isn’t looking at you anyway, right?”
Koki Oyuke, Chosen Not Cheated: Discover God's Goodness Through Life's Detours, Denials and Doubts

Koki Oyuke
“We live a less than life when we remain longer than we should in certain seasons of our lives.”
Koki Oyuke, Chosen Not Cheated: Discover God's Goodness Through Life's Detours, Denials and Doubts

Koki Oyuke
“Why don’t you trust me when I love you?”
— Jesus”
Koki Oyuke, Chosen Not Cheated: Discover God's Goodness Through Life's Detours, Denials and Doubts

Koki Oyuke
“All of life is lived in between ellipses. We’re all uniquely shaped punctuation marks to the epic God is writing in the history of mankind.”
Koki Oyuke, Chosen Not Cheated: Discover God's Goodness Through Life's Detours, Denials and Doubts

Koki Oyuke
“There is more than enough room for each one of us — at work, in the sky or ocean.”
Koki Oyuke, Chosen Not Cheated: Discover God's Goodness Through Life's Detours, Denials and Doubts

Koki Oyuke
“Tables aren’t meant for just one person. That’s a desk. A desk only admits one. And who holds a dinner at a desk anyway?”
Koki Oyuke, Chosen Not Cheated: Discover God's Goodness Through Life's Detours, Denials and Doubts

Koki Oyuke
“Every stage in life is a course in trust.”
Koki Oyuke, Chosen Not Cheated: Discover God's Goodness Through Life's Detours, Denials and Doubts

“Sometimes it is because we are chosen, that we are rejected.”
Zara Hairston

Steven Magee
“The retirement age of 65 was chosen because most people were dead at that age a hundred years ago! It was a government con: Work hard and you can look forward to your retirement!”
Steven Magee

Ashlee Gadd
“You have been appointed to steward all of it-these precious children under your care and this art burning a hole in your heart. There is no one better suited for this job, for this holy work, for this calling, than you.”
Ashlee Gadd, Create Anyway: The Joy of Pursuing Creativity in the Margins of Motherhood

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