“Choosing the freedom to be uninteresting never quite worked for me.”

“It is quite uninteresting; that is why one comes out."— Temeraire, on being inside an egg”

“Freedom is anxiety's petri dish. If routine blunts anxiety, freedom incubates it. Freedom says, "Even if you don't want to make choices, you have to, and you can never be sure you have chosen correctly." Freedom says, "Even not to choose is to choose." Freedom says, "So long as you are aware of your freedom, you are going to experience the discomfort that freedom brings." Freedom says, "You're on your own. Deal with it.”

“Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose - and commit myself to - what is best for me.”

“This was love, I supposed, and eventually I would come to know it. Someday it would choose me and I would come to know its spell, for long stretches and short, two times, maybe three, and then quite probably it would choose me never again.”

“Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.”