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Justine Larbalestier QUOTES

Justine Larbalestier QUOTES

1 " If you are causing trouble, look for allies, always. "

― Justine Larbalestier

2 " I can critique the bad; I can take the good, and I can add whatever I want. "

― Justine Larbalestier

3 " Also, vampires don't eat food. You never get to eat chocolate again. Ever. I'd rather die. "

― Justine Larbalestier , Team Human

4 " I believe it’s incredibly important to write against [racial] stereotypes. If we give in and make sure that all black women characters are asexual, gentle, and kind we wind up with another set of stereotypes. "

― Justine Larbalestier

5 " Killing things shouldn't make you happy, Rosa. That's why they're worried. "

― Justine Larbalestier , My Sister Rosa

6 " I don't think they're terrible parents. They love us. I think they're negligent parents. That's not the same thing. "

― Justine Larbalestier , My Sister Rosa

7 " Personally, I'd prefer a guy who wants to see my boobs. "

― Justine Larbalestier , Team Human

8 " She promised to be good. She wasn't. "

― Justine Larbalestier , My Sister Rosa

9 " For even though the rest of the city--no, the rest of the country--starved and searched fruitlessly for work and slept in a humpy in the park, society's finest could still squander their money however they saw fit.

The unemployed, they would say, were lazy. If they worked harder, they'd do as well as Mr. Harry Moneypants was doing, who'd earned his vast fortune by having the foresightedness of selecting rich parents, who had, in their time, also cleverly selected rich parents. "

― Justine Larbalestier , Razorhurst

10 " See you in the fall. "

― Justine Larbalestier , Liar

11 " Wolves are social. They need their pack. "

― Justine Larbalestier , Liar

12 " Why did you push her ?' Rosa screams again. I realise she's pointing at me. "

― Justine Larbalestier , My Sister Rosa

13 " Leilani smiles. I'm surprised she knows how. For a second i'm certain she's isn't like Rosa "

― Justine Larbalestier

14 " Rosa!" Sally says. "The police are here to help you, not to hear a lecture on comparative murder rates. "

― Justine Larbalestier , My Sister Rosa

15 " Really, according to the shrinks, I am angry at everyone ever. Especially them.

I am all anger and resentment all the time.

Not one of them has ever suggested that maybe I lie because the world is better the way I tell it. "

― Justine Larbalestier , Liar

16 " ‘Expect the best, but prepare for the worst.’ I'm good at the first part, crap at the second. "

― Justine Larbalestier , Magic or Madness (Magic or Madness, #1)

17 " Who’s the bigger liar?

Me or them?

Isn’t lying about love the worst lie? Isn’t that worse than anything I’ve ever done? "

― Justine Larbalestier , Liar

18 " I don't think that now: half of everything is something, not nothing. Lots of somethings "

― Justine Larbalestier , Liar

19 " I tell her I don't have a broken heart. It's still beating, the blood still moves around my body; it only aches when I remember to breathe. "

― Justine Larbalestier , Liar

20 " He didn't mean to corner me, but when you're as tall and wide as he is and I'm as little as I am, merely standing beside me constitutes menacement. "

― Justine Larbalestier , How to Ditch Your Fairy