Quotes About Defiance

In true Bastien form—and keeping in mind that he's only seven at the time—he yanks off his helmet, throws his backpack down, and lies on the ground, using the helmet for a pillow, and says to them, and I quote verbatim, 'Later, bitches. I'm done for the day. Y'all can carry me home or call for a lift. Either way, I ain't moving from here. My ass is too precious for this abuse.

What are you, like a rent-a-white-knight? (Abbie)

Bitch please...you haven't seen mean yet." -Acheron

I may not be able to stop you from killing me to get your pound of flesh, Tristan, but touch me – " She let her gaze drop to the bulge in his pants and spun the dagger in her hands. "And I'll get my own pound of flesh with one swipe." – Evalle

One thing about Southern women, they were tough. No one said no and got away with it. Especially not when it came to a loved one.

Boy, you knock on the devil's door and he will head-slam you through the wall. -Dev

Varyk's deadly gaze turned brittle. 'You really don't want to take that tone with me.' Dev crossed his arms over his chest. 'Well, I do have several others we can choose from. Contemptuous. Angry. Snide. Aggravated. How about I just settle on extreme sarcasm and we call it even?

He looked as though his life had not only passed him by but paused along the way to spit in his face.

If I had given up everything that my life was about ... I'd let cancer win before it needed to.

There was hell in her eyes! She was worn and jaded Her soul is at war with the life she has led. As I looked on that face so strangely faded I wonder God did not strike me dead.

I come closer to my desk as to a bulwark against life.

The time comes in the life of any nation when there remains only two choices - submit or fight.

I was so tired of being told reasonable, practical things whenever something went wrong with my life.

When life gives you lemons. . . You might as well shove 'em where the sun don't shine, because you sure as hell aren't ever going to see any lemonade.

You can take my life, but you'll never break me. So bring me your worst... And I will definitely give you mine.

Looks like I'm going to ruin your day, Big Boy. I choose to live my crappy life a little longer. (Susan)

I swear it on Solin's life. (Arik) Uh, excuse me? (Solin) I would, but there's truly no excuse for you. (Arik)

I like that girl more that I can remember likin' anything in my life. I'm not about to give her up. I'll start carin' what people think when I am six feet under.

There was a whole army of people who seemed not to have anything better to do than to try to disrupt her life, and , if they were given the opportunity, to correct the way she had chosen to live it.

You have to not only live your life in spite of people who don't understand you, you have to have more fun than they do.

When you are threatened, when your life is threatened, you have to fight back.

The modern moralists extol ... the cult of practical activity in defiance of the disinterested life.

In literature as in life, to conform to anything is to knuckle under to your inferiors.

Humor is a way of holding off how awful life can be, to protect yourself.