Quotes About Freedom

I don't mind being one-handed,but if you're going to restrain both of my hands , then you'll have to pour wine directly into my mouth

Automotones, escaped

I guess I knew it wasn't a game, but I ran anyway and I boosted myself up on the water spigot and poured through the window with the boneless grace of little kids.

Then Ivan and Marya Morevna built a pyre and burned Koschei until he was ash. And then they lived happily, visiting each of Ivan's sisters and their bird-husbands, all of whom declared that Ivan did the right thing to risk so much for a woman as beautiful and fierce as Marya Morevna." "If she was so fierce, how come she didn't just save herself?" Tana asked.

Maybe like the bat in the birdcage, Gavriel had been waiting for dark, waiting to get out of the chains, drink Aidan's blood, and escape. But when she showed up, he figured he could use them for a ride through daylight, so long as he seemed harmless enough to need saving. A chill crept up her spine.

No one in chains could ever truly love you.' He glares. 'Do you expect me to believe you know anything about love?' The truth of that hits like a blow.

What would I become if I sttoped worrying about death, about pain, about anything? If I stopped trying to belong?

The vampire looked at her in bewilderment. Then he glanced toward the door and his expression grew sly. "If you free me, I could hold them off.

It would be better to disconnect from everything, to float free from my body, to be nothing in an endless night of nothing.

At least the hem of the skirt doesn't drag impractically on the floor. I can still run in it as I howl at the moon.

It is no life to be always under someone's control, subject to their will and whim.

Neither loyalty nor love should be compelled.

I feel light. I am unwinding. I am unfurling like a banner.

We can still walk away," Walk away. Wasn't that what she'd tried to do for years?

her steed kicks up off the cliff and in to the air. Mine follows. The wild exhilaration of flying hits me, and I grin with familiar delight. Beneath us are the whitecapped waves and ahead the shimmering lights of mortal towns, like a mysterious land strewn with stars.

Cardan removes his glamour, glad to be free of it, drinking in the fragrance of moss and loam. The moonlight shines down, reflecting off leaf and stone.

A ti no te limita ningún juramento. Si te arrepientes de tu jugada, haz otra. Aún quedan muchas partidas que jugar».

I think of how he would hate to be trapped like this. How unfair it would be for me to keep him this way and call it love.

Revelry is inherently slippery; part of its munificence is an easing of boundaries.

I have seen what power does to people. And I have seen how those who pledge loyalty come to resent their oaths and wish for the destruction of the one who holds them. I was never less free than when I ruled.

After all the humiliations I have suffered, all the things I have done for my mistresses at their commands, here I am in a dirty human restaurant, serving coffee to fools. For Kaye. Because I am free to. Because I think it would please her. Because I think it would make her laugh.' 'It's definitely going to make her laugh,' Corny said. 'Thus I am saved from my own grim self,' Roiben said, shrugging his shoulders, a small smile lifting his mouth.

Fearing him is a habit, a habit I could break with a bolt to his heart.

The song he sings is of lost places and homes so far away that they are no longer home. He sings of love so intense it is indistinguishable from hate, and chains that are like riddles of old, no longer holding him, yet unbroken.

Cardan looks at me with helpless rage... The fury in his eyes is familiar, the glitter of them like banked fire, like coals burning hotter than flames ever could. This time I deserve it. I promised he was going to be able to walk away from the Court and all its manipulations. I promised he would be free from all this. I lied.