Quotes About Defiance

and he sprang out of bed at the crack of noon every day just to make certain that the chores would not be done. He

You are sure to be censured by malevolent Criticks and Bug Writers, who will abuse you while you are serving them, and wound your Character in nameless Pamphlets, thereby resembling those little dirty stinking Insects that attack us only in the dark, disturbing our Repose, molesting and wounding us while our Sweat and Blood is contributing to their Subsistence. Benjamin Franklin to Robert Morris JULY 26, 1781

Shiny, let's be bad guys!

I loved the idea of a girl going into a dark alley, and a monster comes, and then she just aces him. It's like, you want to see the tiny person suddenly take control. God, my whole career is basically about that!

I aim to misbehave.

They'll all be waiting. Waiting for me to fall. So, come on , guys. I'm just one girl. No big hero, no protector of justice, not even a bona fide one-hundred-percent slayer. So what are you waiting for? Take me on. Hurt my world. I dare you.

That all you got...Bub?

The greatest expression of rebellion is joy.

So, no more running. I aim to misbehave.

I'm Legs Sadovsky I'm FOXFIRE I don't fuck around with guys.

Legs was always proud even before FOXFIRE, that's the primary fact about Legs Sadovsky: pride.

He thinks: He could give up. He could admit defeat. But he will not admit defeat. He is still alive.

No I don't, no I reject that I reject you, I am not your sister, I am not your twin, I am not you.

For the wanting to be good,in defiance of justice, is one of mankind's greatest weaknesses.

Moving your asshole-mouth & YES SIR I am saying NO MA'AM I am saying.

You keep asking me that," she said sharply. "No. I don't care to notify anyone. I can't bear a crowd of relatives around me. I threw away that damned corset in a trash can. I won't return to that." There

we so resented that asshole up there talking talking talking taking up the entire assembly expecting us to believe there isn't a special creation of God, or of man, to which we didn't belong, here in the shabby south end of Hammond in the worst damn public school in the district, we didn't belong and never would. And what the hell? ---Such truths, FOXFIRE made softer.

no one knew what to do with Ariah Erskine, who refused to behave as others wished her to behave.

Never met Ahhh, don't know him, don't care how big he is-if he's standing in our way? I'ma murder the son of a bitch ~ Trez 'The Shadows' page 205

Déjenme aunque sea el derecho de pataleo que tienen los ahorcados!

because he didn't know how to twirl by his ankles, and he didn't want to learn.

Technically" is just another way of saying you are breaking the rules, Obi-Wan would say. Either you obey a rule, or you do not.

Grow up! Lauren felt as if he had slapped her. Infuriated past reason, she struck back at his ego. You're absolutely right! she blazed. That's what I should do.Beginning today I'm going to grow up and start practicing what you preach! I'm going to sleep with any man who appeals to me. But not with you. You're much too old and too cynical for my taste.Now get out of here!

Love this quotation I just read: "Ciao," the girl said. Fuck you, ciao. Ciao was the way Katherine and her friends said good-bye and it always struck her as a perfect symbol of their attempts to be what they weren't.