Quotes About Independence

Apparently you didn't require air when you were a teenager. You made your own air.

There are some places a person can go where no one else can follow them. And sometimes you just have to trust that they know what they're doing.

What sort of man would stay with her and not be threatened by her excesses, her rage, her spirit, her skill? Who was he, this phantom, unthreatened husband who was still attractive and strong himself? Maybe he lived under a rock somewhere, sliding out once in a while to celebrate the big ideas of his brilliant wife, before returning to the shadows.

She had learned to read before kindergarten, when she'd first suspected that her parents weren't all that interested in her.

I always feel lifted the minute I taste real air. The minute I see the sun-scorched signs, the swaying traffic-lights. The lab is gone. But not tonight, it seems. Tonight all I can think of is Diane Fleming rolling into town, starting fires.

There is no team in I

She said I'd better not make her unhappy because I oughta know that she's never unhappy alone.

You have to decide who you are, little girl, she told me once. Once you know that, everyone else will too.

No one had ever told me I was not a poor relation. They meant to steal from me and keep me believing I was beholden to them.

I think the important thing to remember is that all relationships benefit from a bit of breathing room. Especially friendships. It's only when you find yourself without the women who understand you that you realize there are very few women who will.

I might be alone, but i'm never lonely.

I hold on to him longer than is necessary, but then I let him go. Of course I let him go; there's no other choice. He has a life, and so do I. No matter what I want, the sun has come up and the world will not fade away.

Basically, I wanted to get in, get on, get off, get up, get dressed and get out.

once a woman is "able to stand alone"—as certainly the Tribune's star, healed by Dr. Leger, could boast—"then she will not make an imperfect man her god . . . Then, if she finds what she needs in Man embodied, she will know how to love, and be worthy of being loved.

And yet I know I am too young, that we're too young, for me to live my life only as it relates to you. If you had asked me to marry you the night you first told me about your acceptance, I would have embraced Princeton as part of a larger plan that involved me. I probably would have reacted differently. I might even had said yes. Alas, you didn't ask me then. You made plans for your future without me in mind, And that's okay. But how can you now ask me to arrange my life around you?

Fortunately for me, I'm still evolving into the person I'm supposed to be. And though they don't know it yet, and may not come to accept it, I'm done living by their protocols or anyone else's. I'm the only one who will take credit for my successes. And I'm the only one who will take the blame for my mistakes. From now on, I live for me.

I may feel like a social outcast but im not really one. I think im an outcast inasmuch as I want to be left alone by people I cant stand which isn't really the same thing as true social ostracization now is it?

No ride. So I couldn't go home. No plan. No boyfriend. No job.

Chloe Carlson: But don't think I'm all alone without Lennon. Oh, no. I'll be perfectly fine. I still have my friends, Ben and Jerry. Riley Carlson: They're my friends too!

If I am the pawn of the gods, it is because they know me so well, not because they make my mind up for me.

But there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness.

All my life they had made choices for me, and I had resented it. Now the choice was mine, and once it was made, I would have no right to blame anyone else for the consequences. Loss of that privilege, to blame others, unexpectedly stung.

My childhood was so inconsistent that I never expected normalcy, and it's enough for me to be able to have time and space to be good to myself and the people around me. Children are nice, but I decided to save myself instead.

If the desire to have children is just a way to build some noisy tribe of distraction around oneself, then I'd rather be alone.