"Beneath hot sun, desert roses bloomed. Under cold moon, I still refused to."

Defiance, Resistance, Imagery, Strength

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"Beneath hot sun, desert roses bloomed. Under cold moon, I still refused to."

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"It was possible that I'd thrown one too many Molotov cocktails over God's fence."

Maggie Stiefvater, American Author

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"Good luck with the aliens, and if we survive this feel free to look me up on your next vacation."Good luck with the aliens? You are such a prick."

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"She would thump them both, and she would apologize to neither."

Kristin Cashore, American Author

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"You will suffer, son of Hades!' What else is new? Nico thought."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

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"They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three."

James Russell Lowell, American Poet

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"I'd rather be pissed off then pissed on."

Lois Greiman, American Author

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"We would oppose the turning of the planet and refuse the setting of the sun."

Dave Eggers, American Writer

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"Those who have been insulted by ungodliness and injustice could be in a good or better position to stand for or with those that are being insulted by the same."

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"I will not be my father's dog."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

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"She was a rule breaker, never settling her fierce spirit for things built of structure."

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"Helplessness didn't have to be my identity, I wasn't condemned to it. I was willing - able - to change. Our enmeshment had been enabled by my belief that I needed [my mom] to help me, to take care of things for me - and to save me - but, back in the home where I'd learned this helplessness, I found I no longer felt that I was trapped in it."

Independence

"But the truth was stranger than an aimless road, it always was."

Truth

"My path, beyond doubt or denial. I just hadn't looked toward it. I wasn't lost. I'd always known the way. If I'd only allowed myself to look. I had never been lost, only scared."

Destiny

"If I could mark clearly, convincingly and consistently what was good for me and also what was bad-if I could say yes and also no, as if it were the law-it would become my law."

Self-Control

"I was no longer following a trail. I was learning to follow myself."

Independence

"Somewhere in the sun-washed space between Southern California's hills of sand and the present desolate volcanic sprawl I was crossing, my legs had strengthened, but " invisibly " so had my will. The wisdom of my body had cultivated vibrantly since those sadness-drunken months after the rape when I'd felt so numbed by the hurt and shame that I didn't move further. No longer."

Recovery

"But I couldn't say any of this yet. No one answer felt it could contain anything close to the truth about her. My thoughts of my mother were wild chaos, I didn't know how to tell him we'd been enmeshed for as long as I could remember."

Family

"I began to lust after our conjoining life."

Desire

"I didn't know if I was brave or reckless."

Bravery

"On this walk I'd had so much time and space to actually figure out who I was without my mother's influence. I understood now: the things that my mother had found made her happy were not the same as the things that made me happy. And I understood: that was okay."

Independence