Quotes About Rebellion

Let me see what I can come up with,' she said, and seemed to take a new satisfaction in it now. Something wrong to do, a law to break, and if she was lucky she might even get to steal, and it must have been then that everything changed between us and each of us didn't just have a neighbor to pass the time with but the closest thing either of us could find to a friend. ("Just Outside Our Windows, Deep Inside Our Walls")

Timothy supposed this was what you got when you crossed youthful idealism with anger and a sense of futility. And weed.

When done right, it's possible to be silly and subversive at the same time.

break with the Crown, even though he seemed to consider himself middle of the road on the issue. His stances and politicking gradually got the better of him and again landed him in hot water with the local authorities more

We're the chaff," Styke said. "Lindet doesn't give a damn about our lives and we don't give a damn about her orders. If you want to stay behind and protect Planth, you bet the medals on your daddy's jacket the Mad Lancers will stay with you." He reached out, clasping Taniel's hand.

And each ripple builds and builds into the tidal wave of anarchy to which we are now doomed.

There's a hell of a lot of freedom in this rock and roll circus... it's where all the freaks go - it's the environment for me.

I've become one of those horrible women who goes around saying things like, 'Now that I am old, I shall wear more purple.

Heather resented it that this woman was his daughter. How does a writer of the most subtle, serious fiction end up with a daughter who watches Oprah? I'd be a better daughter for him than she is.

The people she admired in his books were people who walked away from the lives that other people expected them to live—Ellen in his first novel, the bohemian painters in his second.

Then you know Prometheus was rescued in the end. His chains were broken, and he was finally set free." The old man squinted one of his eyes and added, "How about that?

Hugo learned that Prometheus had created humankind out of mud, and then stolen fire from the gods as a gift for the people he had made, so they could survive. So Prometheus was a thief.

19In their ungodly disrespect for God they bring destruction on their own lives.

RzÄ…dzi? znaczy sÅ'u?y?, kobieto! Ci, którzy sprawujÄ… wÅ'adzÄ™, sÄ… jej niewolnikami. Tylko wygnaniec jest wolny.

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

I'm a girl from a good family who was very well brought up. One day I turned my back on it all and became a bohemian.

They may call me a sinner, but I am at peace with myself.

I could easily blast so much keef night and day I become a bouhali; a real-gone crazy, a holy untouchable madman unto whom everything is permitted, nothing is true.

Go and play. Run around. Build something. Break something. Climb a tree. Get dirty. Get in some trouble. Have some fun.

If by weirdo he meant that Nick didn't play grab-ass with the wannabes on the street corner, didn't yank at his crotch and call girls bitches, didn't wear oversized jerseys and pretend to be a gangsta all day, then yeah, Nick had to agree.

Abitha laughed loud and hard, realized it was more than this bawdy song, it was being able to let her hair down, to be her vulgar, sassy self in front of someone again, even if that someone might be the Devil himself.

I think I'm going to have to live vicariously through my daughter's rebellion because I certainly never did go through adolescence.

My guitar was loud as hell, and I had no sympathy for anybody else.

His one friend was the black boy, Pepeu, whom he held in thrall. Together they plucked finches alive, made certain experiments with the flesh of a watermelon, and shouted obscenities at the girls washing tripes in the river.    Once, they tried crucifying a cat, but it got away.