Quotes About Independence

Paissez, bons peuples, L'appel de l'honneur ne vous réveillera pas. Les cadeaux de la liberté Ne sont rien pour des troupeaux. Ils doivent être abattus ou tondus.

Don't play his game. Play yours.

I am sorry my decisions do not meet with your approval, but nevertheless, they are mine, and the consequences are also mine.

I have permission to live off campus." She didn't say from whom, because it was primarily herself.

We had this talk," she said. "You may be dead sexy, and I mean, like, really dead and really sexy, but you don't get to tell me what to do. Right? And no head-shrinker stuff, either, or I swear to God, I'll pack my shit and move!

Oh, try not to sound so much like Mom—you don't have the ovaries (Monica Morrell - Last Breath)

Shane's dad said, I should have left you in the damn cage to fry, you ungrateful little bastard. You're no son of mine. Hallelujah, Shane said softly. Free at last.

Sure. Knock yourself out. No, really. Hammer to the head, works every time." Claire

I'm not obliged to defend your dignity. Provided you have any.

He lives alone and makes his bed? Who does that?

There are always a few, Claire, who like being told what to do instead of being required to think. And those are the ones you should fear. That goes equally for humans, I'm afraid. Critical thinking has become a sadly rare skill these days.

You've grown up being special, and this is how most people live their lives...alone. On their own. Undecided. And they get used to that feeling. It's just new for you.

No, no era una superheroína, pero era otra cosa. Era una persona... con recursos.

I've bowed to you for too long, and if I continue to do it, we will all suffer.

You are strong in spite of him. Not because of him.

I'm not a wilting flower, unless that gets me extraspecial treats.

Dear girls, I can let anyone get hurt because in my world, my safety and well-being come first.

I am not the Library's child! I must acquire my own information, build my own knowledge, and, through experience, transform it to the treasured gold of wisdom.

she was only eighteen." "Old enough to vote, fuck, and know better

She needs you for more than just protection. It's how it works. You want the strong girl, you understand that she's with you because she wants to be. Not because she has to be. You know that, right?

Dario, What you do or do not want applies to you, not me. I didn't ask your permission, and I don't seek your approval!' Khalia's voice had taken on a hard edge, and Dario was the first to look away. 'Congratulations,' Glain said 'You're both wildly independent, and now the Archivist has to be wondering why both of you would want to get close to him at the same time. Clearly, neither of you are cut out to be spies.

But Sam doesn't need to be my therapy, or my life preserver, or my rescuer. I have to be all those things for myself if a marriage between us is ever going to work.

This one is named Eve, I said. And don't check my teeth like I'm your livestock. I bite back.

He and his mother weren't close and never had been, really. In this, as in so much else in his life, Jess was alone