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She's trying to figure out the Plague on her own and not taking what the Rising says for granted. — Ally Condie

If you're late to the rescue, the imprisoned princess will just have to escape on her own! — Kyo Shirodaira

Although she was gregarious, she inadvertently separated herself from people because she was so often inside her own head, focusing on her creativity. — Alexandra Robbins

The girl anchors the stage, sucks in the male gaze, and, depending on who she is, throws her own gaze back out into the audience. — Kim Gordon

Oh, but I don't abide by your time frame, giant," Reyna said. "A Roman does not wait for death. She seeks it out, and meets it on her own terms. — Rick Riordan

the problem for her was that she was on her own now and that she had no idea how to live. — Colm Toibin

She was a grown-up, divorced woman now, on her own. She'd gotten herself this far, she could get herself around Italy too. — Carol Grace

My mum brought me up on her own. All we really had was each other. — Russell Brand

How much fame, money and power does a woman have to achieve on her own before you can punch her in the face? — P. J. O'Rourke

The world I held so closely, she played me like a game,
I released and left her laughing to stand on my own two feet. — Coco J. Ginger

So shall the world go on, To good malignant, to bad men benign, Under her own weight groaning. — John Milton

I'd RKO my own grandmother if it meant keeping this title. Then I'd RKO your grandmother just to see the look on her face. — Randy Orton

Well, maybe that was fate. Maybe she was meant to be alone. She was a runner, and wasn't that the habit of a person who preferred to be on her own? — Alice Hoffman

"The way of Cain" refers to any individual who attempts to approach God on his or her own terms rather than on God's terms. — Robert Jeffress

He wouldn't hurt her. Never on purpose. Nev was going to hurt her accidentally, and when he did it would be her own fault. — Ruthie Knox

He left the room, unable to watch her standing there, naked with her underwear on her head, laughing at her own absurd madness. — Lisa Genova

If she didn't learn to stop her mind racing on ahead of her she'd end up running into a mountain made of her own imaginings. — Kate Morton

In the end, though, I did not kill my sister. She did it all on her own.
Or at least this is what I tell myself. — Jodi Picoult

She has her own brand of strength,brought to the surface by the dim glow of the streetlight and the whisper of night air on her skin. — Holly Bourne

When Stacey Curtis found the dead man on the bed, she knew it was time to get her own apartment. — Wendy Clinch

We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light. — Earl Nightingale

Happy had it been for her, if her regard for Edward had depended less on his own merit, than on the merit of his nearest relations! For — Jane Austen

Every woman artist has to kill her own grandmother. She perches on our shoulder whispering, Don't embarrass the family. — Erica Jong

She soars on her own wings. — Socrates

The infant was standing on a spot in someone else's story, during a moment of her own. — Lemony Snicket

Neuralgia, so she had come along on her own. It was worth it, though. She — Sarah Waters

So many that had died on the scaffold and many more to die including, though she did not know it then, her own son. — Edna O'Brien

Normally, she never paid calls, not on her own. But this was life after
Leo - a series of tiny, halting steps toward independence. — Tessa Dare

If it weren't for her setting me free, I may still be a caged bird today, holding my own daughter captive on a shit-laden perch. — Raquel Cepeda

Nathaniel's gaze fell on the crystal-encrusted pendant around her neck. "You own a shop that sells crystals? — Amy Andrews

She was simply Asha, a woman on her own. Had the situation been otherwise, she might not have come to know her own brain. — Katherine Boo

God begins molding a mother after His own heart on the inside
in the inner woman and her heart
and then works outward. — Elizabeth George

Until they come up with an independent woman who's on an adventure of her own, I don't think I'm interested. — Michelle Rodriguez

It was only by focusing on creating joy in her life that I discovered the greatest feeling of happiness in my own. — Adam Braun

Maddie swallowed hard and tried to channel ... which actress? Damn, she couldn't think of an
actress to save her life! She was on her own. — Jill Shalvis

Novels hadn't interested her for a long time now: not for a moment could she tear her mind away from her own life and concentrate on somebody else. — Lydia Chukovskaya

Every individual ought to travel on his or her own destiny path. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I brush her hair away from her face, gently, so I don't wake her. She doesn't need my protection. She's strong enough on her own. — Veronica Roth

It was becoming difficult to separate her own decisions from those made by others, for her, on behalf of themselves. — Chris Pavone

She had a brainy girls discomfort about her own beauty and its effects on folks. — David Foster Wallace

She told a story of being so fixated on the beautiful features of a playmate that she collided with a tree and skinned her own face. — Jean Nathan

But my rose, all on her own, is more important than all of you together, since she's the one I've watered. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

When you see a good person, think of becoming like her/him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points. — Confucius

I'm so proud to be on a Kate Bush record; she's always marched to the beat of her own drum. — Elton John

Who was to know what went on in a person's heart? A wise woman kept her own counsel. — Donna Woolfolk Cross

But there was something about this girl that made him want to hear her opinions on everything, hear about her day, tell her about his own. — Adi Alsaid

She was hell on wheels and used to getting her own way. — Laurell K. Hamilton

In a plan of life based on nonviolence, woman has as much right to shape her own destiny as man has to shape his. — Mahatma Gandhi

As Lacy waited for her turn to speak on Peter's behalf, she thought back to the first time she realized she could hate her own child. — Jodi Picoult

Laura was going to sew herself into the shape of happiness all on her own. — Emma Straub

My mother used to go out on her own, and I used to have to keep a look out for my stepfather coming home. — Christine Keeler

I need someone who is able to hold her own - if a girl is really independent, that's a turn-on for me. — Ryan Lochte

He was stretched out like he was her own personal playground and she wanted to ride on his equipment for a bit longer. — Amy Andrews

My mother raised three kids on her own, so I was taught that to be a working mom was a good thing. — Sarah Shahi

You know, after a woman's raised a family and so on, she wants to start living her own life. — Terry Pratchett

A Singularitarian is someone who understands the Singularity and has reflected on its meaning for his or her own life. — Ray Kurzweil

Just like a woman to do things on her own time. — Susan Lower

If a woman has a good ass the rest of her wil be nicely configured too, except for maybe the face. The face is always on its own. — James Carlos Blake

The girl, indeed, is rare who does not, on getting married, attempt to remodel her husband according to her own ideas. — Aimee Dostoyevsky

She comes from the Midwest. She had me at a very young age and raised me on her own. She's a very hard worker. — Lara Flynn Boyle

Her senior thesis was based on the notion that no one should be allowed to own more land than could be worked in a day, by hand. — Alice Walker

It is for your daughter," she said. "For Jane. To sit on. She seems not to have a seat of her own but she must borrow mine." There — Philippa Gregory

Your proudest moment is to watch your egg not just function, but to achieve on her own. — Joan Rivers

But this girl simply let my hands gather on her own small, plump hands, like flies gathering on someone who is taking a nap. — Yukio Mishima

To keep Stacia from making decisions on her own, especially ones I do not agree with, I will have to make choices with more speed. — Joelle Charbonneau

I just want to escape my own body and project sunlight on to the walls for her to see, so she warms up and yearns for my arms. — Mathias Malzieu

Years of people pushing and demanding that she conform left a scar on her soul that kept her own self from emerging — Tina J. Richardson

She'd grown up in a strict household; she'd gone insane with freedom the minute she ran away and got out on her own. — Jim Butcher

Like a prayer, that was how her name sounded on his lips. She took his face in her hands, finding his eyes blazing, his breathing as ragged as her own — Sarah J. Maas

[On her Freedom Farm Cooperative:] If you give a hungry man food, he will eat it. [But] if you give him land, he will grow his own food. — Fannie Lou Hamer

An adult woman should not be so possessive of her own birthday that she begrudges her friends the chance to get married on the same day. — Mallory Ortberg

India should walk on her own shadow - we must have our own development model. — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

But sometimes it is just impossible to obey blindly. Sometimes a child must strike out on her own. A child cannot be a child forever — Alex Flinn

I'm really happy to be on the cover as a strong female who has created her own career. — Katy Perry

My confused feeling for her had been holding me back, and I had to clung to her out of my fear of being forced out on my own, and cut adrift. — Daniel Keyes

Apparently when it's two people, it's quirky and funny, but when it's a person doing the same stuff on her own, it's rebellious and antisocial. — Katie Alender

I used to come here on my own sometimes ... Id' stay down here for ages." Her voice was barely audible. "It's a good place for sadness ... — Kevin Brooks

The destiny of the woman must be shaped to a large extent on her own conception of her spiritual imperative and her place in society. — Sandra Day O'Connor

My mother raised three children on her own and my dad was a doctor working 16 hours a day. — Christopher Meloni

He hadn't got Minni mixed up in his troubles; she was trouble enough on her own. — Benjamin Descovich

I would advise a stupid woman always to follow her hsuband - however, a smart woman should rely on her own instincts. — Peter Prange

Mom walked out on us, remember? Because she never got over her own baggage, not because of you or me, right? — A.S. King

You dumb-ass," I crooned, kissing her on the forehead. "You don't share me. You own me. — Gayle Forman

As the baby latched on with surprising fierceness, the nurse offered her own prayer.
Let her be strong.
Let her be sly.
And let her be ugly. — Kiersten White

When Lisa awoke she was back in the cell on the floor covered in her own blood, dirt, and urine. And that was only day 1. — Mia Moore

She sat in silence on a chair looking over him, content with the fullness of her own thoughts. — Siri Hustvedt

It was a fairly happy childhood. My father was working away, and my mum brought up five kids all on her own. — Andy Serkis

Closing the gate on her oldest fears as she had closed the gate of her own fenced yard, she discovered the wings she'd always wished she had. — Natalie Babbitt

Open her heart to me, please, God. After the mess I've made of things, I can't do this on my own. — Karen Kingsbury

I don't think that a woman in politics exists or thrives on her own. — Nicolle Wallace

Then based on her own recent experience, the Divine Presence had a cruelly perverse sense of humor and His Grand Plan needed drastic revision. — Judith McNaught

There's also something sexual about watching the nubile girl in terror. But you do take on her fear as your own. — Christopher Bollen

She understood that her heart operated on its own instructions, that she had no control over it or, indeed, anything else. — Jeffrey Eugenides

Swaraj does not depend on jail going. If it did, there are thousands of prisoners in jail today. It depends on everyone doing his or her own task. — Mahatma Gandhi

The goal is to have every character take on a life of his or her own. Sometimes characters will come into the story that I haven't planned. — Francine Rivers

My mother scared herself with her own queerness, and from that moment on I ceased to be her companion. — Kurt Vonnegut

Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: 'Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause. — Ben Jonson

Baggott enjoys living on the knife edge between hilarity and heartbreak and that makes her a writer after my own heart. — Richard Russo

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time. — Josh Billings

Laying a hand on his heart, she timed its beats to her own. And knew the truest magic was there. — Nora Roberts