Quotes About Independence

I'm an orphan!" Constance cried gleefully. "I'm an orphan!" ~ The Prisoner's Dilemma

Trenton Lee Stewart

According to the rules of chess, is this position possible?' Constance writes in response, 'Rules and schools are tools for fools—I don't give two mules for rules!

Oh, yes," said Kate with a laugh. "When I was seven I ran away from the orphanage to join the circus. They brought me back, but I just ran away again, and I kept running away every time they brought me back. Eventually it was agreed that I could join the circus and save everybody a lot of trouble. So that's what I've been doing the past few years. It's been great fun, too

Rules and school are tools for fools! I don't give two mules for rules.

My brother and I have too good a relationship to spoil it by working together.

How could she ever plan her future when there was always someone who would go out of her way to step in and try to plan it for her?

Alone, but not alone

Everyday I receive a lesson that teaches me that I can't let what others think of me define me.

When in danger or in doubt hoist the sail and fuck off out. . . .

I speak only of myself since I do not wish to convince, I have no right to drag others into my river, I oblige no one to follow me and everybody practices his art in his own way." - Tristan Tzara "Dada Manifesto 1918

I cherished her individuality, that spark of independence no child should lose to life's restrictions and parameters.

It's got nothing to do with god, but the power of my own mind. I have to save me, no one else can do it for me.

Unquestioning obedience is for slaves, the uneducated and the pathetic.

Quietly, unobtrusively and extremely fitfully, something in my mind began to assert itself, to question things and refuse to be brainwashed, bringing me to this time when I can set down this story. It was a long and painful process for me, that process of expansion.

Free speech is the main right that you have. Without it, you have no others.

I know I have a strong India connect. Is it Subhash Chandra Bose or my father who left my Austrian mother when I was one? - Catherine Khan

Nope," Clay said. "We're free now. I'm only going to eat what I want to eat from now on." As long as it's slow enough for me to catch it, he thought ruefully.

Be strong, be vigilant, strike first. And trust nobody.

She didn't raise us to care about her," Tsunami argued. "Kestrel was just keeping us alive, and if that's what she wants, the best thing we can do is run away right now." "I'd like to be something more than alive," Clay said fiercely. "I'd like to be the kind of dragon she doesn't think I am — the kind they write prophecies about. That dragon would rescue her no matter how awful she is.

Shut UP, Queen Ruby; go AWAY, Queen Glory; deal with your OWN STUPID DRAGONS, Queen Thorn!)

Don't we lose something when everything is done for us?

Wow, you have a very confused and amusing view of this situation," Peril said. "We're not your prisoners. You couldn't take me prisoner even with an army of IceWings. Not even if all of them had arrogant foreheads like yours. There isn't actually a world in which you need to decide whether to 'release' me. I released myself a long time ago, but thanks anyway.

Wait," Deathbringer said. "Just — remember that you're your own dragon. You don't have to do what you're told. You can at least ask questions.