“At an age when most children are playing hopscotch or with their dolls,you, poor child, who had no friends or toys, you toyed with dreams of murder, because that is a game to play alone.”
Source: No Exit and Three Other Plays
“I think it's neat you do what you want. Not enough chicks do that, if you ask me--just tell society and their expectations to go fuck themselves. If more women did that, we'd be better off.”
Source: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
“It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”
“In spite of her superficial independence, her fundamental need was to cling.
All her life was an attempt to disprove it; and so proved it. She was like a sea anemone -- had only to be touched once to adhere to what touched her.”
Source: The Magus
“Years ago, a group of good, wise, brave, God-fearing men stood up to claim and defend the human right for independence. Those men are now dead. Their work is not. If good, wise, brave, God-fearing men fail to stand up in their stead, that independence will cease to exist.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“Freedom is the atmosphere in which humanity thrives. Breathe it in.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“Just because someone is a keyholder, does not mean they will always help you unlock the door you want to go through – no matter how much you think you deserve to go through it. Sometimes you just have to reach out and take it.”
Source: Rise of the Morningstar
“We talk of independence. No man is independent. We are all interdependent; and we shall only rise as we carry others with us, and as we are assisted by others.”
Source: A Beginner's Guide to Talmage
“Miriam felt astonished at herself. It was a new thing for her to step out so independently. Somehow, in the past month a tough little root of determination had been growing in her. Whether it was strong enough to support the desperate plan she had undertaken she would soon find out.”
Source: Calico Captive
“It's great to have him watching my back without standing in my way.”