Libba Bray Quotes

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 object to the actual phrase 'Follow me.' You've gotta be kidding! Why would I want to follow anybody else? Nor do I want them to follow me. The machinations of my life, the banalities - they're mine. They belong to me.

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

Only I keep wishing I could think of a way...to show the Capitol they don't own me. That I'm more than just a piece in their Games.

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'm fortunately not in a situation where someone owns me.

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

No one owns you. One hundred per cent of the stock in your personal corporation belongs to you.

My body parts are all I have left now that are only mine - the world owns everything else.

Truth is, I cut my hair for freedom, not for beauty.

I don't want to be owned by anyone.

I don't belong to anyone.

Running is the one part of my life in which I fundamentally feel like the observer instead of the observed.

When you have your own place, you set your own rules.

Nobody can shut the door in your face if you own the door.

You have to ask yourself, 'Who owns me? Do I own myself or am I just another piece of government property?'

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)

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.

And there is no difference, in principle - but only in degree - between political and chattel slavery. The former, no less than the latter, denies a man's ownership of himself and the products of his labor; and asserts that other men may own him, and dispose of him and his property, for their uses, and at their pleasure.

When I'm with Purple, I'm totally with Purple; when I'm doing my thing, I'm totally doing my own thing.

So long as you are still worried about what others think of you, you are owned by them. Only when you require no approval from outside yourself can you own yourself.

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

I play by my own rules so please think twice before you step into my life.

There is no such thing as a soulmate...and who would want there to be? I don't want half of a shared soul. I want my own damn soul.

When a girl is beautiful, she gets to pick - she never has to wait for someone to choose her.