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Quotes About Defiance

Edward was the lone contrarian. He prided himself on not hoping, on not allowing his heart to lift inside of him. He prided himself on keeping his heart silent, immobile, closed tight.
~ Kate DiCamillo
He can put us in jail for trespassing. I don't care.
~ Kate DiCamillo
I am like you, Bloodheart," he said, his voice hoarse; but his voice always was hoarse now, for he had survived worse injuries than these. The iron collar, and his chains, weighed heavily on his neck. "My heart rests not within me but with another, and she is far away from here. That is why you will never defeat me.
~ Kate Elliott
In the face of such evil, what else is there to do but wipe it off the face of the earth?
~ Kate Long
I have just rid the road of the three big bad bullies!" Theseus proclaimed. "Oh, bull!" shouted a shopper. "Yeah!" shouted another. "You and what army?" "I did it alone!" Theseus called. "With my bare hands!" Good boy! I thought.
~ Kate McMullan
I've conquered them. They thought to use and shame me but I win out by nature, because a true freak cannot be made. A true freak must be born.
~ Katherine Dunn
Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.
~ Katherine Hepburn
she had stood at the gate of her compound and told the Japanese soldiers there that if they tried to come in and get her girls, they would have to do it across her dead body. This
~ Katherine Paterson
Dammit, Trotter. Don't try to make a stinking Christian out of me.
~ Katherine Paterson
She had nothing against any of the other guests, but once she started she saw no way to stop. There was nothing to do but turn the hose against every arriving guest. No one coming out of the house to reason with her was safe either.
~ Katherine Paterson
You are a mask.You are nothing more!There is nothing behind your mask,not a face,nothing!I shall fly in the fullness of the night.Under the moon and the stars I shall hunt the vole,the rat,even the fox.I shall become part of owlkind,no matter where I have to go.But I shall go!And I shall never ever return to the Pure Ones.I defy you.I HAVE FREE WILL! -Coryn
~ Kathryn Lasky
I'll say whatever I want. I'm not a book. You can't burn me!
~ Kathryn Lasky
No was most definitely Faolan's favorite word. No and More milk.
~ Kathryn Lasky
Then Otulissa swelled up to twice her normal size. "Well, SPRINK ON YOUR SPRONK!
~ Kathryn Lasky
I will go to the Ring of Sacred Volcanoes, but I shall go not as a member of the MacHeath clan — no, I shall go as a free runner. I reject you. I deny you, I refuse and repudiate you as my clan.
~ Kathryn Lasky
They call you Jatt? They call you Jutt? I'm gonna toss you in a rut! Then I'm gonna punch you in the gut!
~ Kathryn Lasky
Heart disease syphilis pregnancy All you creeps on the street get away from me
~ Kathy Acker
After Hatuey, a fifteenth-century Indian insurrectionist, had been fixed to the stake, his Spanish captors extended him the choice of converting to Christianity and ascending to Heaven of going unrepentantly to Hell. Gathering that his executioners expected to go to heaven, Hatuey chose the other
~ Kathy Acker
Give that bully that is history a bleeding lip.
~ Kathy Hepinstall
I wouldn't accept your help if I was blind and needed guidance across a six-lane highway. Now please go away!
~ Katie Fforde
He lunged again. This time I stood my ground and he checked his leap at the last second....and toppled sideways. I didn't hide my laugh that time. His face twisted fast, grabbed my pajama leg and wrenched, and down I went. Bully
~ Kelley Armstrong
What am I? Let's just say I won't fetch a stick for you. I won't beg for treats. And, no matter how nicely you ask, I will not roll over and play dead.
~ Kelley Armstrong
no' when no one answered, Derek looked from face to face, then settled his glower in me. 'absolutely not.' 'um, I was the one keeping my mouth shut' I said.
~ Kelley Armstrong
Speaking of death, LeBlanc boasted he could kill me in the waiting room. I broke his wrist. He wasn't impressed.
~ Kelley Armstrong