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“one thing I don’t need
is any more apologies
i got sorry greetin me at my front door
you can keep yrs
i don’t know what to do wit em
they don’t open doors
or bring the sun back
they don’t make me happy
or get a mornin paper
didn’t nobody stop usin my tears to wash cars
cuz a sorry.”
― Ntozake Shange, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf

“Do not hold your breath for anyone,
Do not wish your lungs to be still,
It may delay the cracks from spreading,
But eventually they will.
Sometimes to keep yourself together
You must allow yourself to leave,
Even if breaking your own heart
Is what it takes to let you breathe.”
― Erin Hanson

“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And even if he is not romantic personally he is very apt to spread discontent among those who are.”
― H.L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy

“And now I say to you, Yeva Luchcova: will you remain here with the father who tried to sell you, or the prince who hoped to buy you, or the man too weak to solve his riddles for himself? Or will you come with me and be the bride to nothing but the shore?”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic

“I have lost years that I will never get back. Only now am I just beginning to live, on the verge of old age. It is painful and unfair. But today I have a different attitude to life: it can't be constructed from superficial things, no matter how attractive they may appear. Neither wealth not appearances have any importance now.
Pain gave me new life. It took a long time for me to die as Malika, General Oufkir's eldest daughter, the child of a powerful figure, of a past. I've gained an identity. My own identity. And that is priceless.
If there had not been all that waste, all that horror...I'd almost venture to say that my suffering made me grow. In any case, it changed me. for the better. It's as well to make the best of things.”
― Malika Oufkir, Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail

“Contrary to your beliefs, I am stronger then what you give me credit for, but the real lesson here is the knowledge to know I don't owe you an explanation to anything.”
― Nikki Rowe

“Impossible, Monsieur ; mon sang se coagule
En pensant qu’on y peut changer une virgule.”
― Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac

“Having someone do certain things for you is like getting someone to chew your food for you.

It might be easier to swallow but it loses all its flavor...

And you want the flavor!”
― Ze Frank

“She wasn't the kind of lady that depended on a man and I think that's what made her so irrestible to them, any man she had loved; she wanted ~ and the men that loved her back couldn't handle not being needed, so she showed them the door and grew her own wings as they walked out. Love to her isn't a maybe thing, nor is it attachment and any man whom thinks he will ever own her would be best not to try at all.”
― Nikki Rowe

“I have a very great fear of love. It is so personal. Let each bird fly with its own wings, and each fish swim its own course.—Morning brings more than love. And I want to be true to the morning.”
― D.H. Lawrence, The Plumed Serpent

“Date a girl who travels they said, but please, know that you will never tame her nor keep her. Because she’ll never sign her letters off with a “your trulyâ€� - but always with a “see you when I see you”
― lauren klarfeld

“De guiche.
"Portez-les-lui."

Cyrano, tenté et un peu charmé.
"³Õ°ù²¹¾±³¾±ð²Ô³Ùâ€�"

De guiche.
"Il est des plus experts.
Il vous corrigera seulement quelques vers�"

Cyrano, dont le visage s’est immédiatement rembruni.
"Impossible, Monsieur ; mon sang se coagule
En pensant qu’on y peut changer une virgule."

De guiche.
"Mais quand un vers lui plaît, en revanche, mon cher,
Il le paye très cher."

Cyrano.
"Il le paye moins cher
Que moi, lorsque j’ai fait un vers, et que je l’aime,
Je me le paye, en me le chantant à moi-même !"

De guiche.
"Vous êtes fier."

Cyrano.
"Vraiment, vous l’avez remarqué ?”
― Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac

“And I've never been wicked,' said the Witch firmly. 'Least, not by my measure. Just independant-minded.'

'Wickedness depends on where you're standing, doesn't it?' said Jenny.”
― Garth Nix, To Hold the Bridge

“I am not yours, she thought. I am my own.”
― Ruth Warburton, Witch Finder

“A girl who travels has learned how to dance barefoot. She’s learned to place her toes in the sand and dance through rhythm, not through rehearsed footwork. She’s learned to follow what she likes, not what she needs to like.”
― lauren klarfeld

“And then I wondered if as soon as he came to like me he would sink into ordinariness, and if as soon as he came to love me I would find fault after fault, the way I did with Buddy Willard and the boys before him.... The last thing I wanted was infinite security and to be the place an arrow shoots from. I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the coloured arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“Aimer, c'est n'avoir plus droit au soleil de tout le monde. On a le sien. [in Algèbre des valeurs morales]”
― Marcel Jouhandeau

“A girl who travels won’t need a saviour; she’ll need an accompanier. And she’ll need someone who lives that way too.”
― lauren klarfeld

“C'etait un jour de fete.
Mais l'haine se repete.
Laissez pas la peur dominer le coeur,
Si on veut que l'amour soit vainqueur”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, L'Amante de Victor Hugo

“We’re wasting our time trying to deal with Baghdad, It’s better to call for independence today.”
― Davan Yahya Khalil

“Place Saint-Sulpice, la main dans la main de ma tante Marguerite qui ne savait pas très bien me parler, je me suis demandé soudain: "Comment me voit-elle?" et j'éprouvai un sentiment aigu de supériorité : car je connaissais mon for intérieur, et elle l'ignorait; trompée par les apparences, elle ne doutait pas, voyant mon corps inachevé, qu'au-dedans de moi rien ne manquait; je me promis, lorsque je serais grande, de ne pas oublier qu'on est à cinq ans un individu complet.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

“Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get, you've got to make yourself.”
― Alice Walker

“Je réclame l'indépendance dans l'interdépendance.”
― Albert Camus, The First Man

“[...] Elle concevait beaucoup plus volontiers qu'on puisse tuer un despote pour pouvoir exister. Débringuer le négligeant, déglinguer l'infidèle, dézinguer le père.”
― Mélissandre L., Pop In

“On ne doit pas laisser le passé glisser dans
l'oubli, mais s’en inspirer pour briser les chaînes de la vassalité et de l'exiguïté afin de rencontrer la ±ô¾±²ú±ð°ù³Ùé.”
― Naide P Obiang, Nathasha Pemda

“While it is well documented that individuals and organizations that achieve greatness think independently, achieving your goals while fighting constant opposition takes a combination of bravery, confidence, and perseverance that is difficult to develop and exhibit consistently.”
― Alan Philips

“Ses parents ? Non, ils n'étaient pas morts. Ils étaient diplomates pour le royaume et se dévouaient corps et âme à leur mission. Ils le laissaient vivre seul ? A l'évidence. Il avait l'âge de se débrouiller par ses propres moyens. De plus, son esprit particulièrement vif le plaçait, selon lui, bien au-dessus de la plupart des adultes vivant également seuls. A son avis toujours, ces mêmes adultes auraient d'ailleurs bien besoin d'une nounou, eux.”
― Céline Badaroux, La licorne assassinée

“The events leading up to the creation of Pakistan also made the path to statehood very difficult: more than a decade of civil unrest as Indians of all races and creeds sought independence from Great Britain was followed by a massive migration involving some fourteen million refugees who crossed what became the Pakistan-India border. Nearly one million persons—Hindus, Sikhs, and Muslims—died during this bloody upheaval.”
― Shuja Nawaz, Crossed Swords: Pakistan, Its Army, and the Wars Within

“Leaders of Men follow no Kings.”
― Sharky Rich

“We can decide to be independent of negativity in the face of unmet expectations—if we want to.”
― Scott Shumway, The Invisible Four-letter Word: The Secret to Getting What You Really Want in Life.