Quotes About Resistance

If the alpha tried to separate him from Brenna, he'd have a fight on his hands. A bloody one.

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink. Even if it's dying of thirst. Not when it would rather fight the zebra on the other side.

Se lo juro, Señoría, él pretendía follarme hasta volverme loca, quería hacer que me gustara.»

Ahora que ha llegado el momento, resulta que no puedo decir adiós, que no puedo soportar la idea de dejarte ir. Es una necesidad egoísta y obstinada, pero soy su cautiva.

Joder, Rafael... Como tenga que beber sangre, voy a dejar tu maravilloso cuerpo seco. -Elena

Our people would rather go honorably in a fight against evil than cower under its hand." Raphael took a long, deep breath, his shoulders straightening and his head rising. "No one," he vowed, "will ever subjugate those who are our own. Never will we surrender.

I felt him and didn't resist the power draw. I knew Aden would never do something like that unless he was in danger." And that, Zaira thought, was why she had always trusted Vasic. Even when she'd been jealous of him, she'd known he wouldn't hesitate to stand with Aden against any threat.

God, it was hard to think when the force of his personality was smashing against her senses.

Vuelve conmigo, Max —le dijo en voz queda. —¿Cómo voy a resistirme? —La miró con seriedad y le dio un beso con tal emoción que a Sophia le dolió el alma—. Tienes cautivo mi corazón.

Furious defiance burned under his skin.

Let go of my waist," she muttered to Abe at the same time. "Make me," said the man holding her prisoner.

Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it And spills the upper boulders in the sun ... —Robert Frost

But I saved my breath. The likes of her isn't going to listen nor be changed in the mind just from hearing sense. Some people sense is wasted on and that's purely a fact.

I must think about something else for a while. But then I remember his warn arms and his big strong legs touching mine and how hard and wide his chest was and how hot his kiss was, and I got outside and feed the chickens. They are getting mighty fat.

oral folk culture suggests that poor men openly joked about it. Desertion to them was part of the daily resistance to upper-class rule.

When something is "off" in your life, you know it. And it takes an incredible amount of energy to continue the denial—energy that could be used toward letting go of the old and inviting in the new. That

this was an era when for a male or female slave to refuse porneia could mean capital punishment. Some of the early martyrs were slaves who proclaimed their freedom in Christ by refusing to sexually service their masters—and were executed for it.

He would expect me to flee from him. Therefore, I would not. I would flee towards him.

Silence is not power. It's not strength. Silence is the means by which the weak remain weak and the strong remain strong. Silence is a method of oppression.

When the people change, the palace cannot hold.

Allie says: So what, then? What is any of my power worth if I can't use it here? The voice says: Remember what Tatiana says. We don't have to ask what they'd do if they were in control. We've seen it already. It's worse than this.

And—who can say why these things happen on Thursday, when the same events might have gone unremarked on Tuesday?—they fought back. A dozen women turned into a hundred. A hundred into a thousand. The police retreated. The women shouted; some made placards. They understood their strength, all at once.

It is hard now, very hard, but the difficulty is familiar. Her body wants something, and she is denying it.

from the palace, a command unto the people saying "It is thus." But the other, the more certain, the more inevitable, is that those thousand thousand points of light should each send a new message. When the people change, the palace cannot hold.