Quotes About Rebellion

Good girls would certainly not want to read about them.

Daniel took off his tie, loosened his shirt collar. He didn't like Owen seeing him in uniform. It made him feel young and conventional.

Did no-one ever tell you not to trust a fallen angel?" Shemyaza said. "They tell lies.

For his own reasons, Othman objected to those who sought to govern the movements of others of his kind. His movements, after all, would always be considered suspect. His heart went out to the Murkasters. He felt he knew exactly what had happened to them, and it was not a flight into exile.

Mikha'il was regarded as a traitor, although eloim repugnance was obviously tempered by grudging respect, otherwise there would have been no statue.

Our elders wanted to forget the past, and relatively youthful people, like myself, complied with their wishes; we had been trained to fear our history.

Everyone who knows about us wants to keep us apart from you. Your own people work against you! They want to contain you and control you.

I can't fulfill this destiny you all want for me so badly! I'm sick of hearing about it!

You cannot contain me. You will return. You will call for me. You know you will. Like speaks to like. I woke you.

I had always believed marriage to be as my parents portrayed it, something safe and staid. With you, that will not be so.

A renegade burned out among the stars last night.

She found herself wondering what the world would have been like if Shemyaza and the others had never disobeyed the laws of Kharsag and taken human wives.

All still obeyed the words of Emilia Manden. At one time she had held the whip for the Murkasters in Little Moor.

This is what I'm really like, what I've always been like. I'm just lucky because I've found a way around the injustice, the fucking unbelievable injustice of nature. You think the decaying body was me? You think the sagging tits, the slab shanks, the dried up old cunt, was me. No. This is me. And it's the same for every god-damned ancient bint in the world, whatever nature's done to them. Just remember that.

People became conscious in dreams or waking reality, of the empire spreading out to every quarter of the world, and the most aware realized that for every subjugated realm there was a potential rebellion and the conquering wave that had surged outward might well reverse direction.

I, and your other supporters, despised Anu's hollow sanctimony. We were filled with a fire to rebel against all that Kharsag stood for. You made us see the truth, Shem, the lie of it. You were our glorious leader. We would have followed you anywhere.

Gone were the precise and mannered portraits he was famous for at home, which hung on the walls of patron galleries. Now, his paintings were undisciplined and fierce: no demure maidens in limpid bowers, but powerful sorceresses depicted against violent skies, cowering souls dismembered at their feet, soulscape monsters wheeling 'round their heads.

He looked up at her, his face that of total vulnerability. He was a boy again, confused because the world had acted against him.

ON REFLECTION, I think it was probably my Granny who made me an anarchist.

Must be nice to be a seagull. You eat, you sleep, you shag, and if you're having a bad day you can shite on everyone from a great height. Doesn't even have to be a bad day, you can do it just for fun.

The white American is not innately racist. I sense innate docility. He will follow the law if the leadership tells him to do that. He would not rebel if he thought he'd be punished. But if the laws are flouted and winked at, he'll wink, too.' - interview with Leona Brady

I shit on all the revolutionary vanguards of this planet

vandal, Mole

I reminded myself that I did not come from a place where mind games were a prerequisite for survival to such an extreme degree, a place where the slightest act of rebellion could have unimaginable consequences. Slowly