Quotes About Independence

Relieved because what I dreaded most in the whole world was going to happen and I wouldn't have to live with it anymore—the fear. There is the relief of finally not being alone and the relief of being alone when no one can take anything away from you. Here she was, my beautiful fear. Shiny as crystal lace frost.

You have to make your own family, your own life.

Maybe he was real. Maybe I'd made him up. Either way, he didn't think I needed him anymore. Maybe he was right.

I will go to campus alone dressed in antique silk slips and beat-up cowboy boots and gypsy beads, and I will study poetry. I will sit on the edge of the fountain in the plaza and write.

I am not a hero, I am not Odysseus, there are no gods or goddesses guiding me. All I have is myself. And Hex's sword.

I used to hate how afraid my mom was and how afraid she had made me. Now I understand but I can no longer be like her.

It probably all boils down to three magic words: I don't care. And nobody can make me.

Imagine a world full of Elizabeth Wakefields,' Lila said. 'Could you imagine a duller, more predictable place? I think I'd go crazy.

Mrs. Wakefield was fond of Todd, but both she and her husband feared that Elizabeth might be tying herself down too early. In that sense they wished she were a bit more like Jessica, who changed boyfriends with alarming regularity. But the few times she'd tried to broach the subject to Elizabeth, her daughter had cut her off with a brief, Don't worry, Mom. I know what I'm doing.

I heard he went home to Poughkeepsie and moved back in with his mom.

I wanted to know what he thought about my loving a man whose bills were being paid by another woman.

You are free, you just don't know it ~Michael to Sarah

Other birds fly in groups, only eagles fly alone

You are free. You just don't know it yet.

The great greatest gift you can give him is the freedom to spread his wings.

Come away with me and be my wife." She gave a harsh laugh. "If you want a wife, send for one by mail, or wait for the next wagon train to cross the mountains." He came toward her. "I can give you a good life. I don't care how you got here or where you've been before. Come with me now.

It broke her heart, but a good mother teaches her children to fly. Some

Emily,' she said, 'I am going to ask you to Mallowe on the 2nd. I want you to help me to take care of people and keep them from boring me and each other, though I don't mind their boring each other half so much as I mind their boring me. I want to be able to go off and take my nap at any hour I choose. I will *not* entertain people. What you can do is to lead them off to gather things or look at church towers. I hope you'll come.

Los norteamericanos a pesar de ser propicios e incluso de querer ser siervos, siempre se negaron a ser vistos como campesinos.

Õppetund oli pikk ja ränk olnud, kuid ta oli õppust võtnud. Kui sa ise ei mõtle, peavad teised sinu eest mõtlema, ja need teised röövivad sult jõu, tõmbavad su liistule, pööravad sulle loomult omased maitsed pea peale, ohjeldavad sind ja muudavad steriilseks.

Even a future monarch doesn't always want to do what she is supposed to do.

The child who refuses to travel in the father's harness, this is the symbol of man's most unique capability. I do not have to be what my father was. I do not have to obey my father's rules or even believe everything he believed. It is my strength as a human that I can make my own choices of what to believe and what not to believe, of what to be and what not to be.

You do not beg the sun for mercy. -Maud'dib's Travail from The Stilgar Commentary

Behold, as a wild ass in the desert, go I forth to my work.