Sarah Rees Brennan Quotes

It's possible for people to gain control of every facet of your life.

People think that when they come up to me, screaming things into my ear, that I will respond according to what they want. I'll turn around and smile and take the photo. But I'm not somebody's marionette.

When you chose independence over relationship, you became a danger to one another. Others became objects to be manipulated or managed for your own happiness. Authority as you usually think of it, is merely the excues the strone ones use to make others conform to what they want.

For so long, I was controlled and manipulated by other people. Whatever people think of me, I'm finally doing what I want to do.

I cannot do politics under someone else's control.

I'm not anybody's puppet.

If you let other people do it for you, they will do it to you.

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.

I wouldn't play together with someone who likes to control everything like me.

I don't want to be told what's for my good.

I don't really want to control anyone, to be honest.

I don't have to live the roller coaster other people live with my life. It's hard because people try to have an effect.

Let me tell you, I am nobody's puppet.

I don't let everyone pick me up. I only let myself be picked up by whomever I want to be picked up by.

Many people out there don't have a choice in choosing their friends and the people they're being manipulated by. Thank God, I have that choice. I can use my judgment and choose.

I've never reacted well to other people telling me what to do.

We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves.

You never want me in a position to have to think. That's bad.

I'd rather control someone than be controlled.

He did not care which direction the car was travelling, so long as he was in the driver’s seat.

We must form men so that they can only will what we wish them to will.

Nobody wants to feel controlled or treated like a child.

I don't want anyone controlling me.

People buy into my agenda. I don't buy into anyone's agenda.