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Quotes About Defiance

Touch me again, and it will be your last act in life - Blue Eyes.
~ Lilith Saintcrow
That is kind of you, my lord. But I will never dance with you.' Which, of course, made it the goal of Leo's life.
~ Lisa Kleypas
I will be happy to give my life to see some of these white devils die.
~ Malcolm X
Thus Arm in Arm with thee I dare defy my century into the lists.
~ Friedrich Schiller
They beat me, and fucked me in every hole I had. I was their whore. Their maid. A stool they stood on when they wanted to reach a little higher. But I never sang in their cage, Bobby. Not one note.
~ John Edgar Wideman
I felt like a fraud because I could not do anything in the normal way. I couldn't complete school. I couldn't "advance through the ranks." I couldn't "do it by the book." And I always ignored the rules.
~ John Elder Robison
Nobody crossed him without a battle. He disliked almost everything, particularly his wife, his children, his neighbours, his church, his priest, his town, his state, his country, and the country from which he emigrated. Nor did he give a damn for the world either, or the sun or the stars, or the universe, or heaven or hell. But he liked women.
~ John Fante
Come on! Who wants to fight me?
~ John Fante
So fuck you, Los Angeles, fuck your palm trees, and your highassed women, and your fancy streets, for I am going home, back to Colorado, back to the best damned town in the USA - Boulder, Colorado.
~ John Fante
I nearly forgot, Ragnak had a further message for you. He said if we lose this battle and loses his slaves as well, he's going to kill you for it," he said cheerfully. Halt smiled grimly. "If we lose this battle, he may have to get in line to do it. There'll be a few thousand Temujai cavalrymen in front of him.
~ John Flanagan
Who are you, gaijin? What do you know about honor?' 'I'm called Chocho,' Will said... 'Chocho?' Arisaka shouted, goaded beyond control. 'Butterfly? Then die, Butterfly!
~ John Flanagan
Bryn looked from Halt to Horace and back again. He saw no pity in either face. "I don't want to," he said in a very small voice. Horace found it hard to reconcile this cringing figure with the sneering bully who had been making his life hell for the past few months. Halt appeared to consider Bryn's statement. "We'll note your protest," he said cheerfully. "Now continue, please.
~ John Flanagan
You're a dead man, Arratay," Jerrel said through clenched teeth. Halt smiled. "That's been said before. Yet here I am.
~ John Flanagan
Your dislike for the project will be duly noted, and ignored.
~ John Flanagan
Uh... is dat een bonte havik?' vroeg Will... 'Nee, dat is geen bonte havik,' zei Halt nors, zonder zelfs even de moeite te nemen te kijken waar Will naar wees. 'En als het er toch een is kan hij de pot op.
~ John Flanagan
Maddie thrust her jaw out pugnaciously. "You mean to tell me you're scared of my mother?" she challenged. Will met her gaze very evenly. "You'd better believe it," he told her.
~ John Flanagan
YOU WILL NOT. IT'S OUT OF THE QUESTION
~ John Flanagan
Ik heb jullie gehoord, ja, en d'r is niks wat jullie daaraan kunnen doen.' Alyss leek even na te denken over wat hij gezegd had. Daarna zei ze, op droge toon: 'Nee, inderdaad. Afgezien van je vermoorden dan natuurlijk.
~ John Flanagan
Don't you Mother me, Madelyn!" she snapped. Madelyn's shoulders straightened and she stood a little taller. She was two centimeters shorter than her mother, and at times like this, she felt that deficiency put her at a disadvantage. "Then don't you Madelyn me!
~ John Flanagan
The Slave master named Mahmel Was a nasty kind of thug, so Stiggy dropped a rock on him and squashed him like a bug.
~ John Flanagan
We hebben notie genomen van uw bezwaren tegen onze expeditie,' zei Evanlyn koeltjes. 'Ja, maar we hebben er lekker niet naar geluisterd!' voegde Alyss eraan toe.
~ John Flanagan
Gelukkig is het niet verplicht.' Gilan deed alsof hij even nadacht. 'Ik zou het verplicht kunnen máken.' Ze glimlachte allerliefst naar hem. 'Ja, dan kan ik eindelijk eens een opdracht aan mijn laars lappen.
~ John Flanagan
Down fin, Thorn." Thorn glared at him, then shoved the fin down savagely. Water splashed up out of the keel box. "Down through all that sheepskin, you mean?" he muttered darkly.
~ John Flanagan
I defy the pope, and all his laws;" and added, "If God spared him life, ere many years he would cause a boy that driveth the plough to know more of the Scripture than he did.
~ John Foxe