Defiance Quotes

“Anna never wanted to walk when she could be carried, your mother wanted to walk when she could fly, and you want to run before you can walk.”
― Lili St. Crow, Defiance

“If I need a reason now, Dru, it will have to be you.”
― Lili St. Crow, Defiance

“Don’t send me home, it’s boring as fuck-all there.”
― Lili St. Crow, Defiance

“People are goddamn geniuses at not seeing what they don't want to see.”
― Lili St. Crow, Defiance

“Shanks moaned, stirring. “You broke my nuts”
So that was what my elbow had hit. “Sorry.” My voice cracked.”
― Lili St. Crow, Defiance

“I would not put my little bird in the jaws of a trap without being near enough to make sure it wouldn't close on her.”
― Lili St. Crow, Defiance

“It wasn't exactly dangerous to be out during the day... but the Council, every one of them, up to and including August, would have kittens and penguins and little baby narwhals, too, probably, if they knew what I was up to.”
― Lili St. Crow, Defiance

“You know how when you’re reminded of things, and you can’t shut it off quick
enough?" Like, before it slips the knife in and twists? Like that.”
― Lili St. Crow, Defiance

“Move first, worry about looking like an idiot later.”
― Lili St. Crow, Defiance

“Wulf aside, boys are stupid. Always were, always will be, world without end, amen.”
― Lili St. Crow, Defiance

“It was like my hormones had decided to stage a revolt whenever he got within a ten-foot radius.”
― Lili St. Crow, Defiance

“Oh, dear me." Nathalie sank back down in the chair and examined her Uggs. "The sarcasm could've started dripping off her and stained the floor. "Is it conspiracy, treachery, murder, or open warfare? I'll have to choose my lipstick accordingly.”
― Lilith Saintcrow, Defiance

“I mean, seriously, is a baby doll dress for the breastless? I don’t know.”
― Lili St. Crow, Defiance

“The taste of rotting, waxen oranges slid across my tongue, paying no attention to the fact that I was chewing on a wad of spearmint gum. Gran called it arrah-an aura. I was calling it danger candy nowadays. I always felt like spitting it out, but spitting would only make it worse.
Plus, spitting on a dance floor is damn rude. I was raised better.”
― Lili St. Crow, Defiance

“I hit the dance floor, wincing a little bit as the DJ looped feedback through the throbbing of a useless song about someone playing poker with his face or something.”
― Lili St. Crow, Defiance

“We ran and the ghost of Graves ran with us.”
― Lili St. Crow, Defiance

“I never had trouble eating or sleeping when I thought of her in danger. I didn't want to tear my heart out when she looked sad. I'm tainted, I know as much. Just let me stay near you, Dru. Please." - Christophe”
― Lili St. Crow, Defiance

“Nat flung her arm over my shoulders and Alex leaned against my other side, the prohibition against touching gone for a few brief seconds as everyone collapsed together in a heap.
But I wasn't wulfen. I was still lonely.”
― Lili St. Crow, Defiance

“There was a hole inside her, and it twisted.”
― Lilith Saintcrow, Defiance

“…The first wave of vampires hit the stairs then, a cascade of tip-tapping feet and dark-spangled hatred.”
― Lili St. Crow, Defiance

“I wondered what I’d end up looking like once I bloomed. I couldn’t even guess. If I had to be stuck in my own skinny, gawky, coltish body forever… well. It probably wouldn’t be so bad.
I wouldn’t mind a little more in the chest, though. But wild horses wouldn’t drag that out of me. Ever.”
― Lilith Saintcrow, Defiance