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Her fucking eyes, going from defiant to mischievous to hurt to on fire, and then finally, to broken.
— Penelope Douglas
A memory elbowed its way past Bishop's fear and stood defiant in the forefront of his mind. Bishop Washington never forgot a face.
— Ninie Hammon
Decker smiled and shrugged off their laughter. The humour was only barbed if you sat on the outside, and now he was one of them.
— R.D. Ronald
His professed philosophy of "Shandyism" is a defiant frivolity that declines to take the world as seriously as it tries to insist upon. In
— Tim Kreider
[Heraclitus' language] dispenses with lightness and artificial decoration, foremost out of disgust for humanity and out of [his own] defiant feeling.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
There were angry men confronting me and I caught the flashing of defiant eyes, but above me and within me, there was a spirit stronger than them all.
— Antoinette Brown Blackwell
There are eyes half defiant, Half meek and compliant; Black eyes, with a wondrous, witching charm To bring us good or to work with harm.
— Phoebe Cary
He said it in the half-embarrassed, half-defiant tone of someone admitting that he belongs to a religious sect. "You
— Ken Follett
Make no mistake, every child has his own light, no matter how difficult or defiant or unlikeable he or she might seem.
— Nancy Rose
Evil is usually attractive, because evil is defiant.
— Angela Carter
Back the fuck off fluffy!
— Seth Tucker
Still the Amaltas bloomed, a brilliant, defiant yellow. Each blazing summer it reached up and whispered to the hot brown sky, Fuck You.
— Arundhati Roy
Every time I have visited the U.S., I have been asked to let loose my hair and remove the hair pins. Each time, I have put up a defiant face.
— Preneet Kaur
If you have yet to be called an incorrigable, defiant woman,
don't worry, there is still time — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
don't worry, there is still time — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
The author describes Lincoln's attitude in making a deal with a newspaper publisher as, "almost defiant transparency.
— Harold Holzer
See the last orange roses, how they blow / Deeper and heavier than in their prime, / In one defiant flame before they go ...
— Vita Sackville-West
An alkie in full defiant
— Ken Bruen
You can't keep failing. You can't keep being defiant and stubborn. You have to make changes. You need to turn your life around.
— Khali Raymond
It was fine and good to be defiant to the end, but it was better not to get caught in the first place.
— Julie Kagawa
Soft flesh mingled with defiant will to create one frustratingly perfect woman.
— Michelle M. Pillow
The world won't end with a bang or a whimper. It'll end with the death screams of a thousand demons and a defiant, carefree, savage, wolfen howl.
— Darren Shan
Paradox simply means a certain defiant joy which belongs to belief.
— G.K. Chesterton
Give me a defiant poseur over a trendsetter any day. The poseur understands the absurdity of trends
— Dean Cavanagh
'joy' in Phillippians is a defiant 'Nevertheless!' that Paul sets like a full stop against the Philippians' anxiety ...
— Karl Barth
But then I had long mistaken being spoiled for being strong, being defiant for being independent, being reckless for being brave.
— Tami Hoag
I'd noticed it because it was so weirdly out of place, a defiant crimson McIntosh in an army of dull green Granny Smiths.
— Michael Grant
I don't have a master. I'm not sure if I have an equal.
— Laurell K. Hamilton
There is no more defiant denial of one man's ability to possess one woman exclusively than the prostitute who refuses to redeemed.
— Gail Sheehy
Aggressive, tough and defiant may describe me, but that leaves the impression I'm mean and I'm not. People expect me to have fangs.
— Joan Jett
defiant, and her words have rough, girlish hope. The
— Kathleen Glasgow
How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed!
— Walt Whitman
Direct action is, ultimately, the defiant insistence on acting as if one is already free.
— David Graeber
You're a defiant act
of creation. — Elisabeth Hewer
of creation. — Elisabeth Hewer
One body, one breath, one love, united against any force that would tear them apart. Defiant in the face of time, fate, death, destiny.
— Shelly Thacker
Say That! is an iron fist upside the mushy head of smooth jazz, and Grant Geissman's defiant declaration of independence.
— Bill Milkowski
You're a defiant act of creation. You're a whole solar system pretending to be a person.
— Elisabeth Hewer
To all the defiant stoics, laughing and fighting lonesome battles in the face of adversity.
— Kin F. Kam
soft and sweet to look at with a prickly personality and a streak of defiant personality. I smirked. Kitten. It suited her.
— Helen Harper
A good story is one liked. A great story is one that challenges thought, defiant and gets mouths talking.
— Veronica Purcell
Being defiant can be a good thing sometimes," Aunty Ifeoma said. "Defiance is like marijuana - it is not a bad thing when it is used right.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
If you have never been called a defiant, incorrigible, impossible woman ... have faith. There is yet time.
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Most anger stems from feelings of weakness, sadness and fear: hard to remember when one is at the receiving end of its defiant roar.
— Alain De Botton
The American woman's inequality with men is proved by her defiant attitude.
— Simone De Beauvoir
Answer hopelessness with a defiant smile and a raised middle finger.
— Daniele Bolelli
Congratulations, he said. "That was the stupidest thing I've ever seen." His expression was a mix of awe and disbelief. "Ever.
— Patrick Rothfuss
Free time is the easiest thing to sacrifice," Defiant said. "It costs you, to give it up, but there's little guilt.
— Wildbow
Maybe it's the expression in her eyes, something at once coolly logical and fiercely defiant.
— Marie Lu
When adults became defiant in public, no amount of evidence, however irrefutable, would make them change their minds.
— Orson Scott Card
Rather than standing defiant screaming to the winds to bring the storm,
be focused, grateful for the time to prepare and learn to harness it. — Tom Althouse
be focused, grateful for the time to prepare and learn to harness it. — Tom Althouse
A defiant deed has greater value than unnumerable thousands of words ...
— Emmeline Pankhurst