Quotes About Independence

I don't need a mate," she muttered, staring up at the bright circle of the early autumn moon. "But can't you send me a nice, sexy, strong male to dance with? Pretty please?

Truth was, she liked that about him, liked that he always treated her as if he believed she had the strength to stand against him.

Andromeda said a quick good-bye to Lailah and Cato, was startled when her mother hugged her close and whispered, "Fly free, my daughter. Be what I could never be and leave the cage forever.

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink. Even if it's dying of thirst. Not when it would rather fight the zebra on the other side.

I'm worth more," she told him, wiping the back of her hand across her mouth. "Affection, respect, tenderness, I'm worth all of that, so don't you dare come near me again until you're ready to offer it.

she grabbed her bag and strode to the front door, able to hear the murmur of the Hudson in the background. She wondered if the house had a water view, or if the trees blocked it. Probably didn't matter to a being who could fly up for a good vantage point.

Vas a volar, Sienna. Más alto y más fuerte que aquellos que te enjaularon podrán nunca imaginar.

Thank you," she said, running her foot over his shin, "for loving me enough to let me fight my own battles.

Would you give me anything I asked?" in a tone laced with power. White lines bracketed his lips. "I'll be no one's slave.

There was just one problem—he didn't want any other woman. He wanted the violet-eyed soldier who had, completely justifiably, told him to fuck off.

Cradling her face with one hand, he said, "I won't ever clip your wings, baby." Regardless of how much he hated the fact that she was in danger—because to do so would be to put her back in that cage, and his mate had spent more than enough time locked in the dark.

Fly free, my daughter. Be what I could never be and leave the cage forever.

That didn't mean she didn't still fear loneliness. She always would, the scar too old and too deeply set into her psyche—but she was no longer held hostage to her need.

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Dropping the saccharine-sweet tone, she glared. "I don't sleep with men who think I'm a brainless twit.

Men who call strong women shrews," she said in a tone formed of sugar syrup and molasses, "are often men scared of a woman's strength.

Yet instead of drowning in the darkness that had threatened to suck her under, Brenna had said "fuck you" to the monster who'd hurt her, and she'd chosen to live. She'd not only wrenched back control of her own life, she'd taken on an Arrow and claimed him as her mate.

Let go of my waist," she muttered to Abe at the same time. "Make me," said the man holding her prisoner.

I think at a certain point, a person must take responsibility for being their own person. To look forever backward..." She thought of the pile of returned letters her mother hoarded in a trunk, letters Camio hadn't even bothered to open. "It's stagnation and obsession.

Strength doesn't mean never relying on anyone.

I'm alive. I fucking made it. No one has the right to take that from me.

We don't choose our parents. And their mistakes aren't our own. You are what you make yourself—don't ever forget that.

But can you take care of my sister? "Your sister can take care of herself." No matter how much he wanted to do the job for her. The wolf was alternately proud of her strength and frustrated by it. Perhaps it would be that way their entire life. Or, perhaps, they'd find a middle ground. "But I'd walk through fire for her.

Seventy-five and seventy-nine and in on hurry to move into a retirement home, they treated old age like an attempt at hostile takeover.