Rebel Quotes

“I still have the scars from when they captured me and beat me in the middle of the street."
"You don't get scars."
"Emotional scars then.”
― Amy Tintera, Rebel

“Maybe you need to take a look at who I am, instead of who you wish I were.”
― Amy Tintera, Rebel

“Her smile faded to a more serious expression. "Is everything okay? With Callum?"
"Fine," I said, taking a bite of meat and avoiding her eyes.
"He's crazy about you, you know," she said softly, like I hadn't just told her things were fine. "I see other girls looking at him sometimes, and he doesn't even notice. He only sees you.”
― Amy Tintera, Rebel

“You could've at least let me know you weren't dead by the way. I was actually kind of sad about that."
"That's a pretty incredible sentiment, coming from you.”
― Amy Tintera, Rebel

“I sort of liked the sound of bones breaking. It was like home.”
― Amy Tintera, Rebel

“Why is everyone hugging you? I asked.
I don't know. I'm likeable?”
― Amy Tintera, Rebel

“Only for a minute. I'll be right back." He plopped the baby in her lap and hopped to his feet. Wren held her at arm's length and frowned. She did not appreciate that, because she immediately began wailing.
"Here," Wren said, thrusting her in my direction. "Take the mutant baby.”
― Amy Tintera, Rebel

“I plan, you do the punching people in the face part.”
― Amy Tintera, Rebel

“Some of the Reboots were gazing at her with such awe and excitement that I wanted to slap them and tell them to stop being weird.”
― Amy Tintera, Rebel

“I probably love you,” she said. I let out a surprised laugh. “Probably?” She laced our fingers together and tugged me toward the shuttle, glancing over her shoulder. “Probably. It’s hard to tell with me, you know?” I laughed again. “I probably love you, too.”
― Amy Tintera, Rebel

“He made disgusted noises every time I touched him, so I fell entirely against him. He yelled and I ended up on the floor. It was not my most well-thought-out plan.”
― Amy Tintera, Rebel

“I forgot to breathe for a moment when our eyes met and his lips curved up”
― Amy Tintera, Rebel

“He grinned. 'Awww, you've become all soft and mushy. It's cute.'

'I'd be happy to show you how soft and mushy my fist is not, if you'd like a reminder.”
― Amy Tintera, Rebel

“Have you ever been shot ?" David asked, continuing his endless stream of questions.
"Yes. A lot actually"
"Stabbed?"
"Yes, and burned, and electrocuted , and I've had a lot of broken bones”
― Amy Tintera, Rebel

“you kinda bring trouble with you”
― Amy Tintera, Rebel

“the pain was reaching a scream-worthy level , which must have meant I was about to start healing”
― Amy Tintera, Rebel

“you're going to want to get out of my way”
― Amy Tintera, Rebel

“Okay, maybe I was slightly jealous. She'd looked at me like I was an alien at first, too, but now I was pretty sure she liked me. Well, more than pretty sure. Mostly sure. As close as you can get to sure without being totally sure. She ad left her 'home' (priosn) for me, and then risked her life and took down an entire HARC facility to save me. I tought that was like Wren's version of 'I'm totally into you.' I'd take it”
― Amy Tintera, Rebel

“if they killed me, I was coming back from the dead (again) to hunt down the human rebels who told us about this reservation”
― Amy Tintera, Rebel

“You HARC people are seriously messed up , huh ?"
"Probably" I said with a hint of amusement.
"What's it like there ?"
"Being in the facility isn't so bad, I got beat up a lot the first couple of days, but then that stopped and it was just Wren kicking the crap out of me and that was sort of fun "
He gave me a baffled look "Seriously messed up. All of you”
― Amy Tintera, Rebel

“Wren was silent.
She stood completely still next to me, staring straight ahead with that look she got sometimes, like she was either happy or plotting to kill someone. Either way, I loved that look.”
― Amy Tintera, Rebel

“Wonderful, that was just what I needed . More problems”
― Amy Tintera, Rebel

“Humans" Kyle said with a roll of his eyes "Go around killing each other all the time "
Micah shook his head , running his hand along the stubble on his chin "It's like they want to be extinct”
― Amy Tintera, Rebel

“Let go of the past? was that code for "You're not allowed to be mad we murdered you so just shut up and act happy"?”
― Amy Tintera, Rebel

“You can do your part to save the Reboot race, I have a knife right here. I can take out that birth-control chip for you now if you'd like"
"I will stab you with that knife."
She laughed as we walked into the sunshine. " So you and Callum are putting it to use. " She shot me a look, a wicked glint in her eyes”
― Amy Tintera, Rebel

“I plan, you do the punching-people-in-the-face part. I like how this works”
― Amy Tintera, Rebel

“Callum had said that saving people was one of my favorite things, but it was he who needed that, who could muster up that kind of passion for people he barely knew”
― Amy Tintera, Rebel

“no matter what he said about us leaving and not working with the humans, his first instinct was to stay and save them, and I liked that about him. I hadn't realized it at first, but I liked that he had a deep sense of right and wrong and stuck to what he believed”
― Amy Tintera, Rebel