Quotes About Ownership

The day you graduate from childhood to adulthood is the day you take full responsibility for your life.

Nothing you will ever do in your lifetime is likely to make you as much money as buying a home and living in it.

You and only you are responsible for your life choices and decisions.

You don't want to depend on an editor. If you want to regret something for the rest of your life, you want to make sure you're responsible for it.

Use your inner resources. Stop trying to distract yourself with tiny pictures and other people's lives. You're distracting yourself from things you ought to be owning up to.

struck her that these days that remorse was very thin on the ground. It seemed nobody had to be sorry any more for anything they did; instead they doubled down, were proud of it, never ever admitted to being in the wrong about anything.

Actually," began Nina, feeling timid and trying to force herself to speak a little louder. This was her life now; she was going to have to own it, even though she felt as you often do when you've had to do absolutely everything by yourself: rather like a grumpy child. She took a breath. "Actually, I'm going to run a mobile bookshop. Go around to the towns where they don't have one, like here.

You own a dog but you feed a cat.

Taking what is not yours can never bring you or the ones you love any happiness.

Maybe that was how it was with all first loves. They own a little piece of your heart, always.

The future is unclear. But it's still mine.

Maybe that was how it was with all first loves. They own a little piece of your heart, always. Conrad at twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, even seventeen years old.

And grumbling, he does it, in front of everybody, which is how I know he is utterly and completely mine.

heart is mine, just mine. I believe it now. Mine to protect and care for, mine to break.

So I take Peter's hand; I put it on my heart. I tell him, "You have to take good care of this, because it's yours.

put my hand to his chest, over his heart. I can feel it beating. I let my hand fall away. His heart is mine, just mine. I believe it now. Mine to protect and care for, mine to break. So

It doesn't matter that they're broken up. He was hers first, which means he's hers always.

His heart is mine, just mine. I believe it now. Mine to protect and care for, mine to break.

I look at Peter's profile out of the corner of my eye. Sometimes I still can't believe he's mine. The handsomest boy of all the handsome boys is mine, all mine. "What?" he says. "Nothing," I say.

she still thinks she owns his ass.

I look at Peter's profile out of the corner of my eye. Sometimes I still can't believe he's mine. The handsomest boy of all the handsome boys is mine, all mine.

Smirky mouths make you want to kiss them, to smooth them out and kiss the smirkiness away. Or maybe not away… but you want to control it somehow. Make it yours.

and you will feel abject regret, and you'll have no one to blame but yourself.

I don't want to be owned by anyone. Or belong to anyone.