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Quotes About Defiance

That's it, Uncle Huey!" Imogene Duckworthy whipped off her apron and flung it onto the slick, stainless steel counter. "I quit!" If only her voice didn't sound so young.
~ Kaye George, Choke
I didn't read the book. I burned it after the first sentence.
~ Rodindeadpan
I suggest you leave now, or you'll be tied down and gagged until the end of this meeting.""Tie us down?""And gag you, " Joseph cheerfully reminded them.
~ Laura Kreitzer, Fallen Legion
Yes, she'd made a mistake... but she wasn't going to be bullied. You couldn't let boys go around raining on your lava and ogling other people's watercolors.
~ Terry Pratchett, Wintersmith
Well, what do you want me to do? Head butt my way through a few inches of steel?!" she snarled."Well, that would certainly earn you a cookie!
~ S.L.J. Shortt, Blood Heavy
Everyone has bad days...'my Dear MIDDLE FINGER, Thanks for sticking up for me!
~ Napz Cherub Pellazo
Uh, yeah - how about a warm hell no to that request? Does that work for you? Because it works for me.
~ Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me
He sure told you off, huh, Icy?" ~Darcy
~ VIZ Media, Time for Magic
They called me mad, and I called them mad, and damn them, they outvoted me.
~ Nathaniel Lee
If I'm going down, I'm going down with lipstick on." ~Maggie Mae Castro
~ Beth Yarnall, Wake Up Maggie
So. You're a fallen angel." She folded her arms."I'm not fallen, " he said roughly."Then what are you?"He shrugged. "Busted.
~ Vicki Pettersson, The Taken
I have never been reduced to begging somebody to leave me alone, but in your case I'll make an exception.
~ Tom Upton, Vanished
Watch it, loincloth, I'm not afraid to spork your eyes out.
~ Magan Vernon, The Only One
He glared at Mr. Diddley's yellow-toothed smile, and thought how he'd like to shove a toothbrush in his mouth and teach him how to use it.
~ Justin Swapp, The Magic Shop
Change back to your ugly self before I change your face for you, " Logan said, Silver Frost.
~ Kailin Gow, Silver Frost
Whenever I wish to pay my respect to you, my middle finger says, it must first.
~ Fakeer Ishavardas
There are and will be those who think I have gone overboard. Let them rest assured that this assessment is correct, probably beyond their wildest imagination, and that I will continue to do so.
~ Mary Daly
I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it.
~ Victoria Claflin Woodhull
In a world of fugitives, the person taking the opposite direction will appear to run away.
~ T. S. Eliot
Freedom fighters don't always win, but they're always right.
~ Molly Ivins
To dream a garden and then to plant it is an act of independence and even defiance to the greater world.
~ Stanley Crawford
An angry enemy encroached on our lives, our territory, our freedom and our independence.
~ Petro Poroshenko
Irreverence is a declaration of independence.
~ Barbara Sher
Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel