“I like having options, alternate lives unlived but always possible.”
“Daddy always said that an option that you know to have a bad outcome is only a fool's option, i.e., not an option at all. And I liked to think that Daddy hadn't raised a fool.”
“Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live.”
“Do not fear death, but rather the unlived life. You don't have to live forever. You just have to live.”
“She hated being a nobody and like all children, adopted or not, I have had to live out some of her unlived life. We do that for our parents - we don't really have any choice.”
“Life always gives option to quit. If you want to compromise you always have that option”