Truman Capote Quotes

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

I don't belong to anyone.

It's interesting to be at once an insider and outsider. It's a way of learning how to find your way freely without the need of conforming or belonging.

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.

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.

How folks lay claim to a loved one is they give you a name of their own. They figure to label you as their property.

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

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

When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.

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

People have to learn who they are - you can't have somebody else telling you who you are.

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?

I realize that when I moved out of my father's house I shocked and frightened him because I needed a room of my own, a space of my own to reinvent myself.

We need a place in which we may flourish and be ourselves.

I don't know about relationships. Maybe I'm supposed to travel and make films and meet people and have adventures instead.

I don't want to be owned by anyone.

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

What belongs to someone, belongs to someone.

I am much more my own man than I was when I was with the Stones.

Yeah, see, my view of Jordan is that he doesn't belong to Washington.

Even when I was rebelling against my father, the point was to follow my own intuition and instinct.

I think I've established my own identity here at Brandeis.

I've been able to define who I am and my brother is able to do his thing.

Who are you?" I asked. "You know who I am," he replied. "I'm yours." ~Clea / Sage, pg. 105