Quotes About Defiance

When people tell you that you aren't something or you can't accomplish your dreams, you can either cry about it or prove them wrong.

Know that I fought Trinity, with every part of me, I fought

If I wish to kiss you, I will. No priest, no father, and no god will stop me.

Love is a wild child, always at odds with society.

Some say one thing and do another. Others say one thing and do it just for spite. I say nothing and do whatever the hell I want.

Los quimonos son nuestra vida. Lléveselo si lo desea, pero tendrá que llevarme también a mí. ¡Puede ocupar mi país, pero jamás ocupará mi alma!

Never explain, never retract, never apologize. Just get the thing done and let them howl.

we descendants of the Girl Line may not have wealth and proper windows in our drafty homes but at least we have rage and we will build empires with that, gentlemen.

YOU TAKA MY SPACE I BREAKA YOUR FACE

Mitch, that's what faith is. If they spit in your face, you say it must be raining. But you still come back tomorrow.

Someone had carved into the metal wall, a corroded scrawl I hadn't noticed before. The words were upside-down—etched higher than I could reach—but easy to read: LOIS YOU SUCK BUTT! Suck butt, I said. You suck butt. What a crazy thing to do. I didn't want to think about it. That's dumb, I told myself.

your soul is dust to me. I will swallow you whole.

Once, Lina's mom had come home with a pantsuit for Lina, a Theodore knockoff. Lina had stuffed it in the back of her drawer. It mattered to her not to try.

Fighting against one's Fate can weaken the blood. Sometimes, or perhaps most times, it can be fatal.

You'll freeze out here," he said. What did he know? I was already a sheet of ice, a frozen branch, a twig. I could freeze in my own house, if I wanted to. The man's eyes darted down the road. I was an icy slip of nothing. I was invincible.

It's just a flesh wound!

The Brodie set did not for a moment doubt that she would prevail. As soon expect Julius Caesar to apply for a job at a crank school as Miss Brodie. She would never resign. If the authorities wanted to get rid of her she would have to be assassinated.

The critic said, but don't you feel awkward about biting the hand that feeds you? I said no, I enjoy just gnawing it up to the shoulder.

Riley : Do you want to claw at me, kitty-cat? Come on. Mercy: Sorry, I don't beat defenseless puppies.

Tom is a filthy little pustule. If you quote me, I'll deny it!

Face Guy of Gisbourne? Not likely, not anytime soon, thank you very much.

I could not be corseted, either literally or figuratively, into any conventional feminine mould.

I will see you bereft of all that you have, of home and happiness and beautiful things. I will see your nation cast down and your allies drawn away. I will see you as alone and friendless and wretched as am I; and then you may live as long as you like, in some dark and lonely corner of the earth, and I shall call myself content. -Lien, Albino Celestial (Dragon)

Next you will cry about taxation without representation, and throw a basket of tea into the harbor. You are indeed a very Jacobin at heart, and I think I must give up trying to cure you of it; I can but wash my hands and deny responsibility