Terry Pratchett Quotes

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

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

I don't want to be owned by anyone.

I hate jealousy, I hate possessiveness. I'm nobody's possession.

My stuff is my stuff. Sometimes it's not as successful as some of the other stuff. But it's my stuff.

I wanted myself. I wouldn't let what was mine be destroyed.

She needed him to be him. Even if he could not be hers.

Are you mine?” Yes. “Are you mine?” Yes. “Are you mine?” No. “No?” No. I loved being yours. But now I’m mine, which is all I ever was, in the end.

How was she to tie herself to a man without permitting him to imprison her? And was there some means of acquiring things without those things possessing her?

The glass I drink from is not large, but at least it is my own.

I'm not in show business because I don't have to go to the meetings, I'm just not a part of it, I don't belong to it. When you "belong" to something. You want to think about that word, "belong." People should think about that: it means they own you. If you belong to something it owns you, and I just don't care for that. I like spinning out here like one of those subatomic particles that they can't quite pin down.

I don't care how poor and inefficient a little country is - they like to run their own business. I know men that would -make my wife a better husband than I am but, darn it, I'm not going to give her to 'em.

Poor slob without a name. It's a little inconvenient, his not having a name. But I haven't the right to give him one: he'll have to wait until he belongs to somebody. We just sort of took up by the river one day, we don't belong to each other: he's an independent, and so am I. I don't want to own anything until I know I've found the place where me and things belong together.

But she was not made for any man, and she will never be all mine.

In every language, the first word after "Mama!" that every kid learns to say is "Mine!" A system that doesn't allow ownership, that doesn't allow you to say "Mine!" when you grow up, has - to put in mildly - a fatal design flaw.

I can't give you the moon,” the tinker said. “She doesn't belong to me. She belongs only to herself.

I am not the we of anyone

I think maybe the key to having a long relationship is really appreciating that person's life and not trying to own it. It's like just stop trying. We all do it.

Let no one who can be his own belong to another.

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

I’m a fan of the word selfish. Self. Ish. When I say I have gotten a lot more self-ish, I mean I am less concerned with what people think of me. I’m not worried about how I’m perceived. Selfish has always gotten a bad rap. You should do for you.

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.

To be free means to be lacking in constitutive identity...

Those two fatal words, Mine and Thine.

Between what a man calls me and what he simply calls mine the line is difficult to draw. We feel and act about certain things that are ours very much as we feel and act about ourselves.