Quotes About Defiance

It was supposed to say Great Artist on my tombstone, but if I died right now it would say such a good teacher/daughter/friend instead; and what I really want to shout, and want in big letters on that grave, too, is F*** YOU ALL.

No, obviously what strength was all along was the ability to say "Fuck off" to the lot of it, to turn your back on all the suffering and contemplate, unmolested, your own desires above all.

We wouldn't be proper children if we didn't disregard our parents' most vital instruction.

You really are an incorrigible little slut girl, aren't you?

Wanna try me on for size? Go ahead. After all, you're just my type. Though it's a pity you'll lose your pretty head. My master Koumokuten demands it!

Kate felt very offended. 'I am not an elf,' she insisted. 'I'm an Englishwoman!

So much hate to go around, it's hard not to hate back. Much harder than learning to fight back.

Beautiful, Grillo said. Would Swift approve? Fuck Swift. Somebody should have.

Her streak of independence, which had first brought her to this unfriendly city, was in studied defiance of her smothering appetite for security. If she gave in to those loving appeals she knew she would take root in domestic soil and not look up and out again for another year. In which time, what adventures might have passed her by?

He started down the slope towards it, dressed in the blood of his enemy.

You think I'm finished, so you're leaving me to be crucified by every piece of shit journalist in the fucking country.

What do you expect me to do, leap across space and brain them with the jawbone of an ass? Or maybe they'll go away if I throw ricks at them?

You can't drive down the middle of the Mall! I damned well can and will so long as we live to tell about it!

White man trying to kill you slow every day, and sometimes trying to kill you fast. Why make it easy for him? That was one kind of work you could say no to.

The first time Caesar approached Cora about running north, she said no.

He was all of them in one black body that night in the ring, and all of them when the shite men took him out back to those two iron rings.

Robbing the Hotel Theresa was like taking a piss on the Statue of Liberty. It was like slipping Jackie Robinson a Mickey the night before the World Series.

Problem was, even if you avoided trouble, trouble might reach out and snatch you anyway. Another student might sniff out a weakness and start something, one of the staff dislikes your smile and knocks it off your face. You might stumble into a bramble of bad luck of the sort that got you here in the first place.

Maybe everything the slave catcher said was true, Cora thought, every justification, and the sons of Ham were cursed and the slave master performed the Lord's will. And maybe he was just a man talking to an outhouse door, waiting for someone to wipe her ass. — CORA

Suck it, Entropy. We have an appointment, my old friend, but not today.

Carpenter snarled when he said the word, a mangy dog hoarding his bone:

He was all of them in one black body that night in the ring, and he was all of them when the white men took him out back to those two iron rings.

The world had whispered its rules to him for his whole life and he refused to listen, hearing instead a higher order.

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