Quotes About Freedom

Fantasies were safe. It was a break from reality. A chance to act on desires for a short period of time.

I'm not wearing any underwear.

Girls' night out was sacred, and that meant nothing with a penis was going to be within ten feet

You know, Julie, someday a man's going to tame you.

Guilt is bullshit. I don't want it. Don't need it.

Tell me, Serena. Do you want me?" he asked softly. "Do you ache for me? Do you want my possession? Do you lie awake at night wanting a man strong enough to harness your sexuality, stroke it until the fire rages and then unleash it, set you free?

She's told me on multiple occasions that I don't have to always stay the person I was, that I can change and be whoever I want to be.

You want a happy romantic relationship? Don't ruin it by getting married.

I realized that life is so short: Why waste one minute of it worrying what other people think or say about you, or what score you got on some test? Why not believe what you want to believe, and do what you love?

Are you a pirate?

If you're gonna have your head split open, it might as well be while you're riding a wave, dude.

The good thing about being in one's midtwenties is that you know nothing bad is going to happen if you don't return people's texts and voice mails

Once we were outside, I was so excited I could hardly stand it. "Grandmère!" I yelled. "What'd you say to them? What'd you say to convince them to let me go?" But Grandmère just laughed in this scary way and said, "I have my ways." Boy, did I ever not hate her then.

There are some woodland creatures that, no matter how many bread crumbs you leave out for them ... no matter how patiently you wait ... are never going to be yours. They'll never let themselves be tamed. Because they prefer to run wild and free in the forest.

You were young," Rainey said. "Of course you expected to escape. That kind of luck can convince you you're immortal." Caitlin touched her right arm, where the tattoo read, the whole sky. Rainey didn't know about its meaning to her. It was a line from Rita Dove's poem "Dawn Revisited." The whole sky is yours to write on, blown open

I felt a momentary urge to leap into the sea and swim free of the present.

And so I'll let you go, and let it be. Whatever

I CAN DO ANYTHING I WANT!

What a strange world it is, where prisoners are left their weapons and the written word is a mortal danger.

As soon as the guards where gone, I lay down on my stone bench and dumped the king and his threats out of my head without ceremony. They were too unpleasant to worry over anyway.

I grieved, but a part of me felt a lightening of a burden that I had carried all my life: that I could never be worthy of them, that I would always disappoint or fail them. As an unknown slave in the fields of the baron, I knew the worst was over. I had failed them. At least I could not do so again

It might have been preferable, Eddis admitted, dryly, if you had thrown off your chains of bondage solely for love of me. It would certainly have been more flattering. Standing so near to him, she was looking up into his face and watching it closely. I am willing to accept, however, that we are real people, not characters in a play. We do not, all of us, need to be throwing inkwells. If we are compatible with one another, is that not sufficient?

Klimun freed the slave, who was named Gerosthenes, and told him he could go home. But Gerosthenes's family was long dead, and there was no home for him to go to. He was grateful to Klimun for his life as well as for his freedom, and he said he would stay and serve the prince for the rest of his life. And that is different from being a slave in what way? Eugenides asked. I think the difference lies in the choice, Phresine said gently.

For the person who has learned to let go and let be, nothing can ever get in the way again.