“All choices have consequences,' she said []. 'That doesn't mean we're not free to make them. It's one of the perplexities of the human condition”

“Feminism means having a choice. And feminism doesn't care which choices you make, either. Just that you have them. The point has never been to establish some principled refusal to give yourself to another human being. The point is to make sure you can give yourself--or not give yourself--of your free will.”

“You're talking like the choices others made were the only choices someone could make given the choices you made." Mireya paused. "I think.""That's quite a mouthful."“But it's what you're thinking. Yes, you made specific choices, bad ones too. But the choices others make, they make them. You don't. Just because you made the wrong choices, doesn't mean you deserved everything bad that happens to you. Don't you see?""Not all the consequences are bad, Mireya," Faela said her voice soft.”

“In the end we're all miserable. It's a human condition.”

“The heart makes its choices without weighing the consequences. It doesn't look ahead to the lonely nights that follow.”

“You're free to make your own choices, and you're free to pay the consequences.”