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  1. Laurie Halse Anderson _ Chains

    This is not our fight,' the old man said. 'British or American, that is not the choice. You must choose your own side, find your road through the valley of darkness that will lead you to the river Jordan.
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  2. Audrey Niffenegger _ The Time Traveler's Wife

    The choices we're working with here are a block universe, where past, present and future all coexist simultaneously and everything has already happened; chaos, where anything can happen and nothing can be predicted because we can't know all the variables; and a Christian universe in which God made everything and it's all here for a purpose but we have free will anyway.
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  3. Ursula K. Le Guin _ The Farthest Shore

    Try to choose carefully, Arren, when the great choices must be made. {...} But each deed you do, each act, binds you to itself and to its consequences, and makes you act again and yet again. Then very seldom do you come upon a space, a time like this, between act and act, when you may stop and simply be."
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  4. J.K. Rowling _ Harry Potter and the Chamber

    It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
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  5. Charles Dickens _ A Christmas Carol

    You are fettered," said Scrooge, trembling. "Tell me why?""I wear the chain I forged in life," replied the Ghost. "I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.
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  6. Ayn Rand _ Anthem

    I wish I had the power to tell them that the despair of their hearts was not to be final, and their night was not without hope. For the battle they lost can never be lost. For that which they died to save can never perish. Through all the darkness, through all the shame of which men are capable, the spirit of man will remain alive on this earth. It may sleep, but it will awaken. It may wear chains, but it will break through. And man will go on.
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  7. J. Courtney Sullivan _ Saints for All Occasions

    Nothing had just happened to her, she had made a choice, and then she had made another and another after that. Taken together, the small choices anyone made added up to a life.
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  8. Ruth Ozeki _ A Tale for the Time Being

    {...} 6,400,099,980 moments that constitute a single day. His point is that every single one of those moments provides an opportunity to reestablish our will. Even the snap of a finger, he says, provides us with sixty-five opportunities to wake up and to choose actions that will produce beneficial karma and turn our lives around.
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  9. Albert Camus _ The Stranger

    To stay or to go, it amounted to the same thing.
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  10. Jodi Picoult _ A Spark of Light

    She had come to the clinic because she didn't want to be a little girl anymore. But it wasn't having sex that made you a woman. It was having to make decisions, sometimes terrible ones. Children were told what to do. Adults made up their own minds, even when the options tore them apart.
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  11. Jodi Picoult _ Handle with Care

    Choices are funny things-ask a native tribe that's eaten grubs and roots forever if they're unhappy, and they'll shrug. But give them filet mignon and truffle sauce and then ask them to go back to living off the land, and they will always be thinking of that gourmet meal. If you don't know there's an alternative, you can't miss it.
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  12. Jeannette Walls _ Half Broke Horses

    Horses were never wrong. They always did what they did for a reason, and it was up to you to figure it out.
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