Quotes About Rebellion

Over my- I was going to say, 'over my dead body,' but- - michael

This one is named Eve, I said. And don't check my teeth like I'm your livestock. I bite back.

She stuck out her tongue at him, and he leaned forward and -- to her horror -- licked it. Ewwww! Then don't stick it out. Shane smiled. If you're going to hang out in my room and tempt me, there's a penalty. One item of clothing per minute comes off. Perv. He pointed to himself. Male and eighteen. What's your point? You are so -- Say, you got any pleated miniskirts and knee socks? I really get off on --

Because revolution rarely comes from those in charge.

There's nothing quite as scorching as a teenager's contempt. It has a breathless sting, and it lingers for a very long time.

Good-bye, Da. Go to hell. I hope I'm not there waiting.

Run, I see him say, enunciating it so I can lip-read. Run away. I walk instead. Slowly. Calmly. Because fuck him.

I don't have any idea how to be a rogue." "First rule: more belts. Second rule: no more rules.

I stand up from the table and wiggle my index finger at Nick. He'll never get it, but I borrow from Heathers as I leave him to follow Tris. A true friend's work is never done, I singsong. Bulimia is so '87, Heather, he answers. HOLY SHIT squared. I think I just had my first orgasm.

Lou's such an old punk he was around when the Ramones were junkie hustlers first and musicians second, when punk meant something other than a mass-marketing concept designed to help the bridge-and-tunnel crowd feel cool.

I'm not that girl who randomly meets a guy one night and has her life change. I wear cords and flannel shirts. I don't have the killer body like Tris or Caroline. Sometimes I don't wash my hair for three days and sometimes I don't floss.

Everyone on this island wants something kept quiet. I want to roar

Wow. I feel like in this riot of people, I have been kicked in the stomach, but by the giddy police. Forget about the need for oxygen. My mouth wants to go back to the place it just left.

I understand why Laura did what she did. I think I'm supposed to be mad at her, but I'm not. I admire her courage. She saw what the world had to offer and said, No thank you. She saw the lies and hypocrisy and violence and hate and meaningless of it all and she chose another path. She won't live to see her grandchildren, but also won't live to see them suffer.

We will go Awful and die together. But we will do it as free Betas. Not as puppets of the humans.

There are certain things a girl just knows, like that a fourth minute on a punk song is a bad, bad idea

But that's what I love about punk music. It has a sense of humor about itself, doesn't pretend to be something it's not. It's kickass funk with a heavy-metal edge, but with a conscience." Good

As if her language is not enough indication, there is also the matter of her Hot Topic mallrat outfit: short black leather skirt with buckles up the side, mass-produced "vintage" Ramones T-shirt, and piss-yellow leggings with some horrible pair of pink patent-leather shoes.

Dev's out to pierce the pierced, tattoo the tattooed, and have his way with the messy punk boys who came to our shows not knowing they'll end up wanting to mess around with the guy challenging How big is your cocker spaniel? into the mic.

My grandmother, Ester said, wished not to trap her love into taking her. She said a heart is a free thing, and once enslaved will mutiny....

The world too much hates a freed thought or heart.

A woman may in some circumstances acquire what she desires without the protection of a man." She regarded Ester. "If you find a way to live as you wish, unnatural though it might be, you'll carry on your shoulders the weight of a thousand wives' wishes. Though aloud all may curse you as a very devil.

She said a heart is a free thing, and once enslaved will mutiny.

The world hid its head in the sands of convention, so that by seeing nothing it might avoid Truth.