Quotes About Independence

No, baby. This is one thing you and your best friend can't do together." Vianne saw Sarah's fear and embarrassment and confusion. She was trying her best to be a good girl, to smile and be strong even as tears glazed her eyes. "Oui," she said at last.

But you did it. You broke away. D'ya ever think life must be bigger than what we see here, Els?

She got out of the bus and walked alone through town, past a man sitting Indian-style on the side of the road, with a goose on his lap. She heard him say, No way Matilda, to the bird as she hurried past the dirty tent that housed the fishing-carter service". The Great Alone

Leni wondered if one person could ever really save another, or if it was the kind of thing you had to do for yourself.

most of all, she'd learned that she had to rely on herself. Certainly her father and her sister couldn't be counted on.

There were journeys in life no one could take for you. Page 383

Ea e sufletul meu; cea care ma lasa sa zbor si ma tine cu picioarele pe pamant.

They'd come here with nothing and made something out of that nothing and they didn't cotton to being told how to live, not by each other or by a government that hardly seemed to know the Great Plains existed.

She made enough money to keep herself well stocked with film and books.

And they were ashamed to need anything from the government. From anyone, really. Like her, they'd always worked for what they needed, not relied on the government for a handout.

Husbands were to be avoided in the pre-thirty years. There was always time for marriage and children; was the common refrain. You couldn't give up you for them. But what if you wanted them more than you wanted a singular, powerful you? No one ever talked about that.

Four months, she thought dully. Only four more months and she would graduate from high school and be able to leave home. Home. Whatever that meant.

Bana öÄŸretmen gereken bir ÅŸey var, Ian," dedi Selena. Ian onun yüzünü nazikçe kavrad?. "NeymiÅŸ o, tanr?çam?" "Bana sensiz yaÅŸamay? öÄŸret.

I guess our government believes children can raise themselves.

Relying on people for comfort had never felt natural to her. The last thing she wanted was to give someone the power to hurt her. Self-preservation was the one thing she'd learned from her mother.

Non ho bisogno di nessuno. Non l'ho mai avuto.» «Tutti abbiamo bisogno di qualcuno che ci ami».

Find your own happiness. You must, my dear. You must, or you will wind up old and alone and full of regrets.

It was a terrible idea to live a life dictated by someone else's prejudices.

The thing is, not every happily ever after needs to end with a Prince Charming

Hope, you can't go through life living by all the rules and doing what people expect of you without thinking for yourself, you know? That's how you wake up at the age of eighty or whatever and realize life has passed you by.

The thing is, not every happily ever after needs to end with a Prince Charming," I say after a pause. "I already had my prince, and if there's another one out there, great. But I'm not sitting around waiting to get rescued. It's time that I'm the one doing the saving.

First it is necessary to stand on your own two feet. But the minute a man finds himself in that position, the next thing he should do is reach out his arms.

I thought about how I must look, wet, red-fingered from cold, cutting a hole in a perfectly good barn for no reason. "I don't want to tell you what to do," Shep began. This, I'd found, was a very common statement in the North Country. You're not considered rude if you don't return phone calls, or if you get drunk while working, or fail to show up as promised, but telling someone how to do something is bad form and requires a disclaimer.

We older women in Europe are lucky not to be shoved away in a drawer.