Quotes About Independence

but his smile was slow and wide. "I don't know, Clark. Some people just won't be told.

Do you know what a quadriplegic is?" I faltered. "When…you're stuck in a wheelchair?" "I suppose that's one way of putting it. There are varying degrees, but in this case we are talking about complete loss of use of the legs, and very limited use of the hands and arms. Would that bother you?

Rich is paying every single bill on time without thinking about it. Rich is being able to have a holiday or get through Christmas without having to borrow against January or February. Actually, rich would be just not thinking about money all the bloody time.

He had always been like that, our son—quite capable of doing the opposite of what was right, simply because he didn't want to be seen to be complying in some way. I don't know where it came from, this urge to subvert. Perhaps it was what made him such a brilliant negotiator. He

Esential este sa te asiguri ca omul pe care il accepti alaturi de tine nu decide cine esti si nu te tintuieste ca pe un fluture intr-un insectar.

nobody was truly free. Perhaps all freedom—physical, personal—really only came at the cost of somebody or something else.

visits. Your parents plainly think you're a loser. You don't have the guts to walk out of even the

I thought of my mother, a woman so molded by looking after other people that she no longer knew what to do when she was freed.

I don't want to make polite conversation with neighbours, to explain myself. I don't want to be judged for what I did.

live boldly. Push yourself. Don't settle. Wear those stripy legs with pride. And if you insist on settling down with some ridiculous bloke, make sure some of this is squirrelled away somewhere. Knowing you still have possibilities is a luxury.

Pastor, you know you're talking to a room full of happily unmarried women here, right?

Yes, I handed in my notice. Yes, I know Mum and Dad are not too happy about it. Yes, yes, yes to whatever it is you're going to throw at me.

Es gribu teikt, ka ?sti nezinu, ko j?tu. Ka gribu vi?u, bet baidos. Es nev?los, lai mana laime b?tu atkar?ga no k?da cita, negribu b?t ??lniece tam, ko nesp?ju kontrol?t.

She cries because she is drunk and in her flat and there are few advantages to living on your own except being able to sob uninhibitedly at will

he knew better than anyone that you couldn't make someone stay with you. There was no point trying to hang on to someone who didn't want you.

Quiénes se creen los demás para decidir cómo han de ser nuestras vidas?

I tried to think about what I really wanted, rather than what everyone else seemed to want for me. I thought about what Will had really been telling me—not to live some vicarious idea of a full life but to live my own dream. The problem was, I don't think I'd ever really worked out what that dream was.

The woman of the mountains leads a difficult life, while the man is lord of the household. Whether he works, visits, or roams through the woods with dog and gun is nobody's business but his own. . . . He is entirely unable to understand any interference in his affairs by society; if he turns his corn into "likker," he is dealing with what is his. • WPA, The WPA Guide to Kentucky

I liked the fact that I could be who I wanted to be without my sister's voice reminding me of who I had been.

Don't think of me too often. I don't want to think of you getting all maudlin. Just live well.

I want to tell him that I don't know what I feel. I want him but I'm frightened to want him. I don't want my happiness to be entirely dependent on somebody else's, to be a hostage to fortunes I cannot control. His

But I'm a single mother,' she'd said. 'And, worse, I don't do flirting. I wouldn't know how to flirt with someone if Louisa stood behind them holding up placards. And

In the meantime, put on some really great shoes with that jacket and a red lipstick and let Simon Stockwell know you're not to be messed with.

and I realized that even if she didn't know it yet, everything had changed for her. She wouldn't stay here now, no matter what happened with Will Traynor. She had an air about her, a new air of knowledge, of things seen, places she had been. My sister finally had new horizons.