Quotes About Rebellion

We abandon our backboards along with our decorum, racing for the stairs and the promise of freedom, however temporary it may be. Walk! Mrs. Nightwing shouts. When we cannot seem to heed her advice, she bellows after us that we are savages not fit for marriage. She adds that we shall be the shame of the school and something else besides, but we are down the first flight of stairs, and her words cannot touch us.

don't. I don't know about you, but if I'm gonna be chained to a rock by the gods, I'd rather go out as the person who brought fire back from the mountain than as a pure princess who didn't have the sense to say to everyone, "Oh, hell no, you are not sacrificing me to some sea monster!

There had been something about the island that made the girls forget who they had been. All those rules and shalt nots. They were no longer waiting for some arbitrary grade. They were no longer performing. Waiting. Hoping. They were becoming. They were.

Nobody's killing any cats." Miss Lillian glowered. "It's what we've always done." "Yeah, well, I'm changing how things are done." Miss Lillian started to protest, but Miss Addie cut her off. "Very well. We could stand to change.

I am beginning to understand why those ancient women had to hide in caves. Why our parents and teachers and suitors want us to behave properly and predictably. It's not that they want to protect us; it's that they fear us.

Isaiah thought of Memphis in love with Theta and Theta in love with Memphis, and he understood for the first time just how dangerous their love was for them. Even though they were supposed to be free, they weren't.

Sometimes I just want to burn down all the rules and start over

Just as I'm certain Sam is still short. That part didn't require code. Take that, Sam.

Tu madre y yo no aprobamos el alcohol. ¿No has oído hablar de la Decimoctava Enmienda? - ¿La de la ley seca? Bebo a su salud siempre que puedo.

For half a second, I consider staying. Maybe I could find that bliss state again. Maybe I could stay here, follow all the rules, be safe always. But as soon as the thought enters my mind, another one swims in and eats the first one like a shark. Fuck that , it burps.

certain element—a few crazies—that don't have anything to do. They shot out two streetlights on Goodwinter Boulevard last night. When I was a kid we smashed pumpkins and strung trees with toilet paper on Halloween, but this new generation does it all year round.

here, to tempt you into a kiss. I've become a shameless hussy. Aunt Ardith would have disowned me." "Aunt Ardith sounds like a pain in the—" "She was wonderful," Mary said firmly. "It's just that she was very old-fashioned and had strict notions of what was proper and what

Dratted women," the colonel muttered, tossing down his napkin and bolting out of his chair. "They don't know how to listen. They don't know how to obey. If the army were made up of them, we'd all be British subjects." Caleb

I like offending people, because I think people who get offended should be offended.

I say long live the bountiful personality. Long live the people who make people mad. Long live the ones who won't listen to sense. Long live the people who are forever getting warned, one of these times, you're going to go too far! Long live the fiery, the unguilty, the unhumble, the dazzling, the cheerful and the brave. Even if they don't live long, even if they look obnoxious or even stupid in a certain light, they're still wonderful and magnificent to me, and they're free free free.

We try to get out of these cocoons and make our way down to where our bodies are. We try shoplifting and racist/sexist/ageist humor (trying to offend our way out); we get naked on stage. We try sleep deprivation and razors on our skin. We date creepy, scary sleazes who we half-hope, half-fear might do the cutting for us. But we're so used to living inside a dream, even cutting feels dreamy. We can't get out. We can't wake up.

Warn a kid with oppositional defiant disorder not to do something, and you've pretty much guaranteed the crime.

We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.

Even the most miserable life is better than a sheltered existence in an organized society where everything is calculated and perfected.

Rock n' roll seems to have changed society much more than any politician, I think it really has.

I am against marriage, and I don't give a fig for society.

A man is culpable in the eyes of society when he escapes from the jurisdiction of its mediocrity.

We will destroy laughing, we will set fires laughing, we will kill laughing... and society will fall!!

An addict is someone who uses their body to tell society that something is wrong.