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Quotes About Provocation

If he'd tossed her to the ground and started ripping off her clothes, instead of being outraged, she would have helped. She would have done it right there, in front of God and the goats.
~ Susan Mallery
He was a man on the sexual edge, and she couldn't wait to push him over.
~ Susan Mallery
Art is seduction, not rape.
~ Susan Sontag
Talking like touching. Writing like punching somebody.
~ Susan Sontag
Things that annoy me end up fueling my ideas.
~ Josh James
I didn't approve of murder on general principles. Not even of people who seemed to go around begging for it.
~ Josh Lanyon
I want people to react to my work, to think, to question, to challenge, to cry and laugh and feel.
~ Josh Lanyon
Que mes seins te provoquent Je veux ta rage. Je veux voir tes yeux s'épaissir Tes joues blanchir en se creusant. Je veux tes frissons. Que tu éclates entre mes cuisses Que mes désirs soient exaucés sur le sol fertile De ton corps sans pudeur.
~ Joyce Mansour
y caminar por ese barrio, pasada cierta hora de la noche, era provocar demasiado a la suerte.
~ Juan Gabriel Vásquez
You are an impertinent wench! Do you not know the Black Lion eats three girls such as you each day afore dinner?" Oblivious to the staring people around them, she put a finger on his lower lip. "I do not find that a horrible way to die at all," she said gently.
~ Jude Deveraux
That is God's way. He upsets everything and loves to annoy the vain most of all.
~ Judith Merkle Riley
I got an A in philosophy because I proved that my professor didn't exist.
~ Judy Tenuta
Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.
~ Jules Renard
This has to be the most self-centered thing I've ever said, but no, I think you just wanted to vex me.
~ Julia Quinn
If looks could have killed, Susan would have been bleeding profusely from the forehead.
~ Julia Quinn
Why why why was he being such an ass?
~ Julia Quinn
Michael had to clutch the end of the table to keep from rising. He could have had Shakespeare at his side to translate, and still not have been able to explain why Colin"s remark infuriated him so.
~ Julia Quinn
I hope that bite becomes infected," Poppy said in a malevolent growl. "I hope your arm turns black and falls off. I hope your bollocks turn gree—" "Poppy!" Andrew barked.
~ Julia Quinn
Duels have been fought for less." "By idiots!
~ Julia Quinn
How dare you," she breathed. "How dare you." Charles lifted one shoulder in an insolent shrug. "It was either kiss you or kill you. I thought I made the right choice." He strode to the connecting door and put his hand on the knob. "Don't prove me wrong.
~ Julia Quinn
thought he might like to strangle her. "Normally I should not be so bold," the woman went on, "but your
~ Julia Quinn
When you're initially a heel, it's easier to be a heel. I'd rather people hate me than try to get them to love me.
~ Nia Jax
I definitely get inspired by people who are disgusting on some level.
~ Lauren Lapkus
The women who inspired this play deserved to be smacked across the head with a meat ax and that, I flatter myself, is exactly what I smacked them with.
~ Clare Boothe Luce