" Why does everyone want to own me?" Pippa mumbles. She's got her head in her hands. "Why do they all want to control my life -- how I look, whom I see, what I do or don't do? Why can't they just let me alone?"

"Because you're beautiful," Ann answers, watching the fire lick her palm. "People always think they can own beautiful things. "

― Libba Bray , A Great and Terrible Beauty (Gemma Doyle, #1)