Quotes About Defiance

She clenched her fists. "I believe, milord, that I have endured my full limit of male tyranny." "I am afraid, milady, that you will have to become accustomed to it. It is the way of things, here in the world beyond your cloister." He turned her forward and nudged her to continue down the stairs. "This world would fall into chaos if women were allowed to do whatever they wished.

I drink to not giving a damn . . .

Old enough to know better, pissed enough not to care. (Jaden)

Bitch please...you haven't seen mean yet.

Fuck you, God. Nothing gets through HY-80

I see you are still determined to not listen to me about not venturing abroad after lights-out.' She sat down across from him at the worktable. 'I never listen to you when I know enough to make up my own mind.

A woman who has nothing left to lose can prove dangerous.

He admired her surety. She knew her own worth and did not pretend otherwise for those who judged her on her parentage. But by refusing to tolerate fools and play nice, she'd condemned herself to a solitary path, both in defeat and in victory.

The buttons on her back gave way as if before a Mongol horde.

Insult me all you care, Mr. Russell. But the law applies even to those who disdain it.

Don't worry, darling. I'll look out for myself. And I've reached an age when I have no problem telling someone to fuck off.

Woods brings a deft touch to untangling very complicated family ties! The moment Amanda defied her rich and powerful father to marry Bobby O'Leary, Big Max disowned her. Even now, with Bobby dead and Amanda mired in debt, he refuses to forgive her. But Caleb, the new man in Amanda's life, is determined to mend fences between

You, there, girl! Halt!" Who in the universe ever halts when the enemy tells them to?

She'd rather go down like a roaring lion than a bleating ram.

Ich bin kein Kind, ich bin nicht niedlich; warum soll man so jemanden streicheln?

Perhaps the only remaining attitude is one of waiting. By committing oneself to waiting, one neither blocks one's path toward faith (like those who defiantly affirm the void) nor besieges this faith (like those whose yearning is so strong, it makes them lose all restraint). One waits, and one's waiting is a hesitant openness, albeit of a sort that is difficult to explain.

You can burn down my churches. But I shall be free.

I'm exempt from anything I damned will feel like on the grounds that I'll kick anyone's ass who says otherwise.

No damned thing from the vasty deeps is going to get the better of me in my own home.

Oh come on!" I said. "If Walker couldn't control me with his Voice, did you really think you stood any chance? I've been around. I've stepped on worse things than you! I've faced angels, from Above and Below! I don't bow down to anyone! I'm John Taylor!

The gargoyles were always the first to make it clear when you were out of favour with the paper, and some of them had uncanny aim and absolutely no inhibitions when it came to bodily functions.

But sometimes you have to break rules because nothing is perfect.

Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them.

To all the people who fought back.