Stephenie Meyer Quotes

I think all kids should have something they feels is theirs.

I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property.

What is true belongs to me!

I don't want to be owned by anyone.

Claiming your life for yourself feels like a huge deal until you do it.

It emasculated people to be protected in this way... [They should] be used to protecting themselves.

I'm very interested in how we take ownership of our own stories and our own lives.

If something is mine, then I want to keep it.

She doesn’t want me to own her. (Dante) Well, the Simi doesn’t understand that. Owning’s not so bad. I own akri and he kind of fun. (Simi)

The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands

She believes that Tobias belongs to her now. She doesn't know the truth, that he belongs to himself.

It is your life and it is worth risking everything to make it yours.

An answering smile drifted across his tanned face. "What is mine, I intend to keep.

I would not like it thought that I do not buy my own paperclips, sir. I enjoy owning my own paperclips. It means they are mine.

My power is my property. My power gives me property. My power am I myself, and through it am I my property.

You are mine. Do you hear me? You are mine, Della Sloane. I will take care of you. Nothing is taking you away from me. Nothing.

I don't want to play out of another man's bag.

Ownership is the most intimate relationship that one can have to objects. Not that they come alive in him; it is he who lives in them.

The best way for me to protect you is to encourage you to be able to protect yourself.

Be your own place of safety, she told herself, straightening. No crossbar in the world could protect her from what lay ahead, and neither could a tiny knife ticked in her boot - though there her tiny knife would most certainly remain - and neither could a man, not even Akiva. She had to be her own strength, complete unto herself.

For themselves they fought, for themselves they conquered, and for themselves alone they have they have right to hold.

One is responsible for one's own life. Passivity provides no protection.

Pride comes from a place of real acknowledgment that somebody's actually living their life for themselves, and I want to be that example for my son.

I came to the conclusion that there is an existential moment in your life when you must decide to speak for yourself; nobody else can speak for you.