Quotes About Ownership

Life gives us nothing outright. It only lends. Nothing is ours to keep. Absolutely nothing. Not even our bodies, our brains.

It's always easier to take a risk when it's your own stuff you're risking. Nothing is harder than risking something that belongs to somebody else.

I see the sun, high overhead, and then I know. This darkness doesn't belong to the night. It belongs to me.

She glanced over her shoulder at the dog, who was still leaning nervously against the door. She shot him a look that said he was entirely to blame for all of this. He returned a look that said he accepted all that guilt and more.

Sometimes we have to own our decisions. Good or bad." "Right," Allie said. "I'm getting that. I thought I got that all along, my whole life. But it turns out I just

A dream has more than one owner. It belongs to everyone it may choose to touch. Whomever it concerns.

Anything that lifts responsibility for our actions is addictive, I've found. So

Try not to be so sorry, my young friend. Most of what you regret in this world is not of your own making.

Yes," he growled, "yes, I will put you there and turn out the light in your eyes and come to stare at you for centuries, to pore over you, because you are mine, my treasure, my hoard, and I cannot keep you and I cannot let you go.

I am not a little girl anymore, dazzled by your magic. It is my magic, now, too.

Because it's my fault, you see. I did it. And you must always clean up your own messes, even when your messes look just like you and curtsy very viciously when what they mean is, I am going to make trouble forever and ever .

After that, Marya Morevna understood that she belonged to her secret and it belonged to her. They had struck a bloody bargain between them. Keep me and obey me , the secret said to her, for I am your husband and I can destroy you .

It's different. When you make a house good and strong because it's your house, a place you made, a place you're proud of, it's not at all the same as making it glow for someone who ordered you to do it.

Who," coughed Zvonok, "do you think broke your favorite teacup last fall? The one with the cherries on the handle?" "I was careless, Comrade Zvonok. I left the window open and a storm blew through." "Incorrect! I broke it because you left me no cream and no dry biscuits, and when your old boots wore through, you burned them up for heat instead of giving them to me!" "Hear, hear!" the table erupted in approval once more. "Well done, well done!" "I'm surely very sorry--" "So is your teacup.

That's how kings are made, my brush-tailed girl—they pick a place, shove a stick in it, call themselves King and wait to see if someone gets angry about it. No one has gotten angry so far, so that makes the otters mine.

Time is communal, Marya Morevna, the most purely communal of all commodities. It belongs to us all equally.

Thing is, just because you make a body shiver don't make it yours.

The tyrannosaurus looked a little shamefaced - but only a little, for dinosaurs would rather drown in tar than admit they're wrong. That unfortunate attitude played a key role in their extinction. Naturally, they have steadfastly refused to own up to it, so I cannot tell you where it all went reptiles-up.

The land of opportunity seized and given to someone else.

after we get hitched. About time Blake and Maggie took over this here house

Private ownership of property is vital to both our freedom and our prosperity.

If the shoe fits," she ground out, "lace up that bitch and wear it!

You can ask for things, but you can't just reach out and take things as if it's your right." A

We built that Wendy House our own selves, for Wendy! And you can't keep a Wendy out of her own Wendy House!