Megan McCafferty Quotes

Yes, here I am returning, the woman who bore herself to the bottom and back. Who wanted to swim like dolphins, leaping waves and diving. Who wanted only to belong to herself.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

I'm responsible for what I am and what I want to be. I'm not trying to live by another's standards.

You cannot belong to anyone else, until you belong to yourself.

I've always told Will, 'You can do whatever you want as long as you can look at yourself in the mirror and be okay.' Because at the end of the day, Will is his own man. I'm here as his partner, but he is his own man. He has to decide who he wants to be, and that's not for me to do for him. Or vice versa.

When you go independent, if you fail, you're totally responsible for it. If you succeed, you're totally responsible for it. You are responsibly for who you are... and what you do and what you make.

That person has to be accountable for himself. I think that's what we have to do in society today is to be accountable for yourself. I think we have the tendency to always want to live someone else's life.

Let us first obtain ourselves…Give us ourselves and all that belongs to us will follow.

I had fought for my independence and fought for my freedom to do as I chose.

I think it's very important to send the message that, while parents are needed to remind you to practice and occasionally force you to finish things... they also need to learn to respect you. You as an individual, ultimately, are the captain of where you're going.

I am no longer content to be the scared, obedient schoolgirl. Who are you, a stranger, to tell me what I can and cannot do?

It's a mistake not to give people a chance to learn to depend on themselves while they are young.

Hold your own. Know your name. And go your own way. And everything will be fine.

The only person who is going to give you security and the life you want is you.

The rule for every man is, not to depend on the education which other men have prepared for him-not even to consent to it; but to strive to see things as they are, and to be himself as he is. Defeat lies in self-surrender.

You have to make your own family, your own life.

Somehow I evolved into a person who ceased to ask permission.

There is no method except yourself.

I'll succeed,' Hazel promised. 'And Hecate? I'm not choosing one of your paths. I'm making my own.

There are things one must do for oneself.

No man bosses me around, and no man ever will.

You cannot live your life looking at yourself from someone else's point of view.

I never put a lot of praise on myself because of my relationship with Ike. I was just happy when I started to like myself - when I divorced and took control of my life.

I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves.

We all have experiences in our lives that change us, and we all learn from people, like my dad, but at the end of the day, it's only us. And we're only responsible to make ourselves happy.