Of course, I thought I was badass at sixteen, too. Wait, I was badass at sixteen. Oh, yeah.


Rachel Caine

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I am a badass, and I recognize that you, too, are a badass.
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Did I think he was “the one?” Iʼll never know. At sixteen, everyone is “the one.
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It's going to give you nightmares for the rest of your wasted life."
Oh, my God, I was so badas...
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I was not crying - eyes water. I think we all know I'm a badass and I don't cry. - Caleb
C.J. ROBERTS
Adrian gave me a look that said I was wasting his time. "Because Jet sounds badass.
RICHELLE MEAD
My name's Mark, I ride a scooter. I'm badass.
BLINK 182
Sixteen days is way too long. It's a long, long time to wait to play.
DEBBIE RYAN
I’d learned that my mother was a badass in disguise. She was Van Helsing in an apron and heels, an...
RACHEL VINCENT
I lived in Paris for six months when I was sixteen. It was a fend-for-yourself environment.
BEAU GARRETT
I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years.
TRUMAN CAPOTE
I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years.
BERNARD M. BARUCH
At sixteen I was stupid, confused and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self-confident, preposs...
JULES FEIFFER
I can be badass and still like pedicures." - Liz Harper, Secret Need
SATIN RUSSELL
When I was sixteen, I made the discovery -- love. All at once and much, much too completely. It was ...
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
I admired my father very much... at the age of sixteen. But now I see that he was a brutal and cruel...
DELMORE SCHWARTZ
Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but...
MARGARET MITCHELL
We’re going bowling?’ I can’t keep the disappointment of of my voice. Bowling is not badass.
LEANNE HALL
She smiled at him. It was her special smile. Her please go away you piece of sub-proletarian turd sm...
HELEN ZAHAVI
We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local b...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
I'm not going out of my way looking for devils; but I wouldn't step out of my path to let one go by.
ROBERT E. HOWARD
Do you question my authority? I am the headmistress of Evernight!" It was Balthazar who answered her...
CLAUDIA GRAY
My imagination is something of a badass.
D.C. PIERSON
He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself a...
MARY WILSON LITTLE
Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I...
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Sixteen Moons, Sixteen Years
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Sixteen times you dreamed my ...
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Every time you look up at the stars, it’s like opening a door. You could be anyone, anywhere. You ...
BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY
When I was sixteen I was pretending to be Charlie Musselwhite. I had a long raincoat on, my hair sli...
DAN AYKROYD
I was between A man and a boy, A hobble-de-hoy, A fat, little, punchy concern of sixteen.
RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM
I’d said it before and meant it: Alive or undead, the love of my life was a badass.
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I did all my heavy partying before I turned sixteen.
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FRANCINE PASCAL
I wasn’t brave, or strong, or badass. And all those quirky lines I fed you? A foolish attempt at s...
L. DUARTE
When I was sixteen or seventeen, I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a playwright. But everythin...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA
I had lived in that part of London that used to be called Islington since I was eight. I attended a ...
SAMANTHA SHANNON
I was playing pretty boys and these angelic roles like Nicholas Nickleby and all that stuff. And I w...
CHARLIE HUNNAM
Like every other creature on the face of the earth, Godfrey was, by birthright, a stupendous badass,...
NEAL STEPHENSON
Ben was in his truck, window down, idling at the curb, dark lenses hiding his eyes from her, looking...
JILL SHALVIS
But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memor...
SUE MILLER
What I wrote... wasn't crazy... or a bullshit... or nonsense... it was what I saw!
DEYTH BANGER
Put your badass faces on and follow me.
ILONA ANDREWS
How did you get in here?' (...) 'How I got here isn't important, because I could do it twenty times ...
RACHEL AARON
Most singers have their idols. I remember Elvis Presley when I was a kid. When I was about sixteen, ...
PERCY SLEDGE
When I was at Brown, I wanted to write the great American novel, but I was too scared to take a crea...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK
Are you saying I'm not a badass? Then all these tattoos were for nothing. What shall I do?
CHELSEA M. CAMERON
America is all about speed. Hot, nasty, badass speed.
WILL FERRELL
Now that we have the pissing contest out of the way, we need information. [Rayna]
M.R. MERRICK
Meow, Meow, Motherfucker.
RACHEL VINCENT
Lady Katsa, is it?"
"Yes, Lord Prince."
"I've heard you have one eye green as the Middlun...
KRISTIN CASHORE
Starke, release me or I’ll kick you in the balls.”
And that would hurt, given the current r...
KERI ARTHUR
NEVER INTERFERE WITH MELENGAR AGAIN
BY ORDER OF THE KING
… AND US
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN
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And I suggested to change very simple way to Olympic Games, in one competition, two different levels...
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BECKY ALBERTALLI
When 'Sixteen Candles' first came out I was totally offended by the girl in the brace, but I saw the...
KAREN JOHNSON
When I was sixteen I started acting, and I also started to embrace my tradition and culture. I had a...
ADAM BEACH
I am not emo, but a Blues man. That allows me to both sing my sorrow and still be awesomely badass.
JAIRO FERNáNDEZ
It's absolutely chilling to think that I've been working on a comic-book series called '...
ADRIAN TOMINE
Sixteen games was too much. The wear and tear over the season, and then the kids need to do schoolwo...
DAROLD IMANAKA
I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943.
J. PHILIPPE RUSHTON
I was born in a blender.
LORNA LUFT
I was born 'neath a clouded star.
JULIA WARD HOWE
I wasn't born a redhead, but I was born to be a redhead.
GEORGETTE MOSBACHER
I was born to be funny.
BUDDY HACKETT
I was born in Palo Alto, California in 1961.
ERIC ALLIN CORNELL
Sixteen-point-five percent was very impressive relative to the [national] average [12 percent].
ANDREW LEVENTIS
Sometimes, I think Bill forgets that I am sixteen. But I am very happy that he does.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
Her stories were made of badass women teasing monsters and running wild with dragons.
MELODY LEE
At school, up to the age of sixteen, I found history boring, for we were studying the Industrial Rev...
ALISON WEIR
I could not kill her, of course, as some have thought. You see, I loved her. It was love at f...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV
I was running since I was 10. Since grade one at school people looked at me and thought, oh gosh she...
CATHY FREEMAN
A baseball bat could not have hit me harder than that smile did. I was sixteen years old. In that ti...
JERRY SPINELLI
We like to look sixteen and bored sh*tless.
DAVID JOHANSEN
I was raised Catholic in Rockford, Illinois. But I'm not a practicing Catholic anymore. Oh God, ...
NATASHA LEGGERO
Oh, yeah, I got it from the players too.
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I am so romantic about Gypsies. They're not allowed to do anything until they get married. So th...
KATE MOSS
When I was sixteen years old, I was sentenced to two years in prison; the Swedish government changed...
DANIEL ESPINOSA
Oh, yeah, it's right here, from that play. I thought it was (a foul). He (ref) kind of hesitated, th...
AARON MILES
I need your strength. Yes i am a badass, but there are times that i need someone to hold me up too, ...
KRISTEN PROBY
I was at art school that had quite a celebrated film course as well. I tried for that film course wh...
EDGAR WRIGHT
Um, enough apologies, okay?
Just get on with being your badass self.
SCOTT STABILE
I was born to hit a baseball. I can hit a baseball.
BARRY BONDS
I am not afraid... I was born to do this.
JOAN OF ARC
People should either be caressed or crushed. If you do them minor damage they will get their revenge...
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI
If you die before you say her name, ser, I will hunt you through all seven hells." --Prince Oberyn o...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
Perhaps I can stay by the fire and mend your socks and scream if I hear any strange noises.
KRISTIN CASHORE
In Heathrow a vast chunk of memory detached itself from a blank bowl of airport sky and fell on him....
WILLIAM GIBSON
Katsa, only you would consider the collapse of the ceiling a good joke.
KRISTIN CASHORE
First blood is mine.
Last blood counts for more.

--Artemis Entreri and Drizzt Do'Urd...
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I'm a relic, and things were a lot different when I was fifteen and sixteen. There were no cell ...
PATRICK CARMAN
Daddy!” Eva whirled around, glaring. “I’ve been fucking Deuce since I was eighteen! I wanted t...
MADELINE SHEEHAN
Oh yeah, that was the thing to do at that time. This was before the new wave of bebop started.
MARTIN DENNY
I got the idea for 'Throne of Glass' when I was sixteen. Music always inspires my books, and...
SARAH J. MAAS
Because you know, I’m your best friend, but you’re just not that badass, man.
RACHEL CAINE
You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your sou...
MARIE CARMICHAEL STOPES
I first started wearing fragrance when I was thirteen or fourteen, and the smell was candy-like. The...
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Arthur Hamlin was running ball around the end. One of my teammates tripped. He was trying to keep fr...
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You. O Positive. How many exits?"
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I had a good teacher."
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Oh, God, it's early," he groaned. "Hell. Well, at least I can grab the bathroom first."
Claire ...
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...will you be so kind as to provide me with a few places where I might look for a murderer?"
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Me neither,” Shane put in. “Homie don’t play that.”
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Boys. I'd turn gay if they weren't so sexy.
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So don't preach at us like you're some kind of saint. You're just another sinner.
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Jason talking about Michael -

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Don't play his game. Play yours.
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No bacon for you."
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Bathroom, maybe? Which is where I need to go."
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Are you armed?" Oliver asked her.
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Unless you want to hang a This Vein for Rent sign around your neck, move already!
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Of course, we could all die soon. I'm writing because Michael's patrolling the house and Shane and C...
RACHEL CAINE
I’m saying a prayer. Maybe you ought to, too. It’s going to take us a miracle to get through thi...
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Not bad,” she finally said. “At least you left out the oh-my-God sauce this time.”
“Mad...
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You’re still here. No beer. I’m not corrupting a minor.”
“But you’re a minor,” she ...
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I’d say over my dead body, but I think you already made that point,” Michael snapped. “Thanks ...
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Eve said, in a high, squeaky, airless voice, “The ghost! You’re the ghost Miranda was talking ab...
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It's called being polite; they probably didn't teach you that at home. Doesn't mean I like you or an...
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She's nice when it suits her. That doesn't mean she's nice.
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Claire sighed. She supposed people always did like that sort of girl, and always would. And secretly...
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Shane groaned. "Yo, Drama Princess, want to tone it down a little? Somewhere, Sandra Bernhardt wants...
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Home," he repeated. "Home is where the heart is. Why don't you leave yours here? I'll take very good...
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Give the girl some credit. At least she told you, instead of letting you figure it out on your own."...
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Science is a method, not a religion, yet it can be just as close-minded. Open minds here Claire. Alw...
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She smells better," Claire said. "And she made me cookies.
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Trav, if you cross us -- "
"I know. You'll get me. I'll try not to pee all over myself in terro...
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You were leaving, and you didn't even know if I was okay.
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Girl, it's an umbrella, not a Lamborghini,
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And about Shane, I swear, if he doesn't snap out of it, I'm going to punch him in the face. Well, pu...
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Monica's eyes were fierce and fiery, but she didn't move, and after a second she turned and ran up t...
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I like the sound of that, crashing Monica's party," he glanced at Michael, then quickly away. "What ...
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You shouldn't be afraid of me because I'm a vampire. You ought to be scared because you just trash-t...
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What time is it?"
"Three a.m. Michael's making a snack. You want anything?"
"Um...no. Than...
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Things happen. Things that physics and math and crap that gets measured in a lab can't explain. Peop...
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And girls are much more mature.” Eve nodded wisely. “So you’re about ten years older than Shan...
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I don’t read Latin!” “You’re kidding. I thought all geniuses read Latin. Isn’t that the in...
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Run first, mourn later.
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In her experience, groups of friends like that just didn't open up to include underage, undersized g...
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He loped off down the hall, and she felt a pure burst of fury. Boys. Why were they always such dumba...
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We're not exactly going to the wilderness, Shane. You don't have to take everything. There are vendi...
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Bite Me!-Shane Collins to Eve Rosser.
The Morganville Vampire Series
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Unfortunately, mortal life is very fragile, and very short. Yours could be shorter than usual.
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Y si eres tan lista como pareces, deberías saber que es una estupidez creer que la ciencia lo resue...
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No, no era una superheroína, pero era otra cosa. Era una persona... con recursos.
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bite me. oh wait, you can't from way out there."
- eve
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I can't simply adopt strays because they seem winsome.
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Hell, I can't hit a girl. Here, Claire. You hit her.
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Okay, that really shouldn't have happened. And we’re not going to talk about that, right? Ever?”...
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At least you left out the oh-my-God sauce this time."
"Made myself a batch with it," Shane said...
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We're clear," she said. "You're kind of a psycho. I get that
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shane:do we have a choice
michael:dont think so
shane:then screw im gitting tired lets go...
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That’s kind of a leap, but the Russian judge gave you a nine point five for style, so OK.
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Run first," Shane said. "Mourn later."
It was the perfect motto for Morganville."

"C...
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Hell,” Shane spit in disgust. “I can’t hit a girl. Here, Claire. You hit her.” He tossed her...
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Mortals simply aren't what they used to be," he said. "A thousand years ago, you would have bartered...
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There once was a kindly farmer who found a viper freezing on the ground in the snow. Please help me,...
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Glad it was you and not me," Shane said, and offered Myrin a hand up. "Any brain damage?"
"Sinc...
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Did you bring me a hamburger?
Did I-No,Myrnin,I didn't bring you a hamburger.Bizarre.He'd neve...
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I didn't bring you here," he said. "You think you're Miss Special Destiny of the year?"
"No," I...
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You're dead," I repeated. "So why are you in my dream?"
He raised the bill of his olive drab ba...
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It's been the toughest week of my life, not touching you. Not talking to you. Waiting to see what yo...
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Shane’s dad stopped the van,” Claire said. “He took Monica as a hostage.”
For a second,...
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He dunked his tea bag and watched the results critically. “I really must get a new supplier. This ...
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What’s burning?”
“Your brain.
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Um… Eve…can I ask…?”
“About what?” Eve was still frowning at the pasta like she sus...
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You know, I thought you were a mousy little thing when I first saw you, Claire, but you're not, are ...
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I am sorry my decisions do not meet with your approval, but nevertheless, they are mine, and the con...
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Mom and Dad had a lot to answer for, she decided. She couldn’t even be rude to evil
vampires ...
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