Deb Caletti Quotes

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?

It's a bad word, 'belong.' Especially when you put it with somebody you love ... You can't own a human being.

It all depends on whether you have things, or they have you.

We use the same possessive pronouns for everything, but do we own our lives or sisters or husbands in the same way we own our shoes? Do we own any of them at all?

Every law is an infraction of liberty.

The tighter you squeeze, the less you have.

They don't like the thought of someone else making demands on the person whom they see as belonging entirely to them.

I'm too old to be forced.

Isn't it possible, he wondered, for one person to love another without trying to own each other? Or is that buried so deep in our genes that we can never get it out? Territoriality.

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)

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

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.

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.

He realized that if he didn't leave, it would never be his life. It would be theirs.

You say we'll soar like two birds through the clouds, but soon you'll cage me on your shelf. I'll never learn to be just me, first by myself.

A man doesn't wasnt to feel that a woman cares more for him than he cares for her. He doesn't want to feel owned, body and soul. It's that damned possessive attitude. This man is mine---he belongs to me! He wants to get away --- to get free. He wants to own his woman; he doesn't want her to own him.(Simon Boyle)

To be free means to choose, whose slave you want to be. ­

A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned

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

Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.

If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.