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Quotes About Defiance

Lord MacLean, pray have a seat. That chair is safe. And half the size of a regular seat. She dared him to be comfortable in it. He eyed the chair and shook his head. I believe I'll stand. As you wish. She smoothed her skirts, the movement of her slender hands drawing Dougal's gaze. She had the most kissable mouth and the most intriguing-and challenging-blue eues he'd ever seen.
~ Karen Hawkins
No soft-skinned, lace-covered, dandified profligate would ever take this house and make it his. Ever.
~ Karen Hawkins
I am not made of porcelain, Anthony. Nor do I need to be wrapped in wool and placed in a box for safekeeping. I don't like boxes; I never have.
~ Karen Hawkins
kneel Your Grace, he said curtly, Unless you presume to tell a man of God that he may also fuck himself? Rhian nearly lost her balance, coming off the last dais step.
~ Karen Miller
Love that defied trite words or even description, that carried with it tenderness and passion and laughter and friendship. Love that made her eyes sparkle and her breath stop when she saw him and imbued life with more meaning and more purpose.
~ Karen Ranney
Touch me again, chakaar, and I'll ram this into your carotid artery." "I haven't got one." "Then I'll have to keep stabbing you until I find somewhere else that bleeds copiously.
~ Karen Traviss
I wish you'd get one thing straight - I'm not a traitor. I was never on your side. I'm called the enemy.
~ Karen Traviss
I'm not choosing anybody but myself.' Jane was sick of men thinking they could give her ultimatums.
~ Karin Slaughter
They'll only get your goat if you show them where you keep your hay.
~ Karin Slaughter
Claire didn't argue because Lydia was older and she always got to drive. She opened the mudroom door and left it unlocked. At this point, Claire welcomed the burglars to return. She would've left cookies out for them if she'd had the time.
~ Karin Slaughter
I've got my foot so far up your ass that you can taste my nail polish in the back of your throat.
~ Karin Slaughter
DONNA: She doesn't like office equipment, so we let her come out here and tear up office equipment. For people who don't like TVs, they can break TVs. If you don't like cars, you can break cars. If you don't like living-room things, you can break living-room things. Do you have something that you don't like? KARL: Vandalism. So this doesn't really work for me, does it?
~ Karl Pilkington
They had triumphed over death this night. Sylvie wondered when death would seek his revenge.
~ Kate Atkinson
Wronged wives were a law unto themselves.
~ Kate Atkinson
I feel like a man who has had truckloads of filth heaped upon him; I am now asked to struggle to my feet and talk while more truckloads pour more filth around my head.
~ John Howard Lawson
A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face.
~ Juvenal
I have never regarded any man as my superior, either in my life outside or inside prison.
~ Nelson Mandela
If I had my life to live over I would die fighting rather than be a slave again. I want no man's yoke on my shoulders no more.
~ Robert Falls
As a dimension of man, rebellion actually defines him.
~ Robert M. Lindner
He, who survives his reputation, lives out of despite himself, like a man listening to his own reproach.
~ Thomas Paine
Words signify man's refusal to accept the world as it is.
~ Walter Kaufmann
By God, I cannot flatter, I do defy The tongues of soothers! but a braver place In my heart's love hath no man than yourself. Nay, task me to my word; approve me, lord.
~ William Shakespeare
Jesse Helms has never been an invincible man.
~ Harvey Gantt
People, particularly big men carrying big rifles, don't expect lip from a scrawny thing like me. They always look a bit dazed when they get it.
~ Leigh Bardugo