Quotes About Autonomy

I might be only sticks and snow and hag magic, but at least I did not come from her. I am no one's child. That makes me smile, showing red teeth.

At least no one is privy to my thoughts. Stupid as they are, they remain my own.

Can you save yourself?

Fight your fight," she tells me. "Let someone else worry about theirs.

I say, because if she doesn't want to talk about that part, she doesn't have to.

Just because I am to protect you does not give you governance over me.

I wanted to show you that you could trust me, that you didn't need to give me orders for me to do things. I wanted to show you that I believed you'd thought it all through. But that's no way to rule. And it's not really even trust, when someone can order you to do it anyway.

We're not sorting sand because of Call. We're sorting sand because of me. - Tamara

It is no life to be always under someone's control, subject to their will and whim.

Neither loyalty nor love should be compelled.

Fight your fight," Let someone else worry about theirs." -Grima Mog

It doesn't feel good exactly, to be in danger, but it does feel good to be the cause of events rather than being swept along into them.

No, I won't help you. No I won't hear you explain why I should. It really is a magical word: no. You say whatever bullshit you want, and I just say no.

I don't want to be a creature, shaped by their hands and quickened with their blood. Something made like a doll, from snow and sticks. An assemblage of parts, stranger even than the sluagh.

I'm no longer a child, and I don't need comfort.

Voltaire—you know him? He said that a man should cultivate his own garden. Guess I'm with him on that.

Actions have consequences...first rule of life. And the second rule is this - you are the only one responsible for your own actions.

The only place you will be accepted is the place you make for yourself.

Do these two things every day for Huck: number one: make him feel good about himself, and, number two: allow him to figure out how to do things on his own. Those two simple steps. Every day. It's all he needs to plow forward and grow into a strong, happy man.

If you don't think for yourself, then you're admitting that your theory of happiness is the old dog asleep in the sun.

You have your thoughts and I have mine. This is the fact and you can't change it even if you kill me.

Dear math, grow up and solve your own problems I am tired of solving them for you.

Sometimes their children would do everything exactly as they'd taught them, and sometimes they would do all the things they'd told them not to do, and seeing them suffer the tiniest disappointments would be more painful than their own most significant losses, but then other times they would do something so extraordinary, so unexpected and beautiful, so entirely of their own choice and their own making,

People can do what they like in the privacy of their own homes.