Of course, I thought I was badass at sixteen, too. Wait, I was badass at sixteen. Oh, yeah.
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I am a badass, and I recognize that you, too, are a badass.
CASSANDRA CLARE Did I think he was “the one?” Iʼll never know. At sixteen, everyone is “the one.
K.A. TUCKER Holy Hell! That was totally badass
SHANNON DELANY It's going to give you nightmares for the rest of your wasted life."
Oh, my God, I was so badas...
JAMES PATTERSON 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...
BILLIE HOLIDAY Sixteen Moons, Sixteen Years
Sixteen of your deepest fears
Sixteen times you dreamed my ...
KAMI GARCIA 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.
RICHELLE MEAD That's why when major badasses greet each other in movies, they don't say anything, they just nod. T...
CASSANDRA CLARE I did all my heavy partying before I turned sixteen.
CAMERON DIAZ I am seventeen. The good things about seventeen is that you’re not sixteen. Sixteen goes with the ...
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 I left school at sixteen - I was fed up and restless. The only thing that interested me at school wa...
HAROLD PINTER And I suggested to change very simple way to Olympic Games, in one competition, two different levels...
OLGA KORBUT Because I have to admit: there's something really badass about truly, honestly not caring what peopl...
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.
CLEM LABINE I am in love with girls that are bad and naughty and badass, and a little selfish, but I like to wat...
DREAMA WALKER 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...
R.A. SALVATORE 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...
BLAKE LIVELY Arthur Hamlin was running ball around the end. One of my teammates tripped. He was trying to keep fr...
CLAUDE HUNTER When I was young, I was rather attractive, and I thought that I would be a leading lady. I always th...
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It was the perfect motto for Morganville.
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RACHEL CAINE I had a good teacher."
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"Home...
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Claire ...
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Excellent' Shane sai...
RACHEL CAINE ...will you be so kind as to provide me with a few places where I might look for a murderer?"
"...
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“I wonder, sometimes, if your gen...
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“Who, crazy dude? Maybe. Or he might ...
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"I had a good teacher."
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"You d...
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He glanced over a...
RACHEL CAINE Bite me, Goth princess,” Shane called from the back. “Not literally or anything.”
“Mayb...
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RACHEL CAINE She can go with us to the lab and keep Myrnin pinned down while we pull the plug, if he's not... you...
RACHEL CAINE You okay?"
"Fine."
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"Gee, thanks. That's very comf...
RACHEL CAINE He's not doing anything he shouldn't be doing, right?"
"Like what?"
"Like hitting on you....
RACHEL CAINE Doorman: Good morning Mr. Peaknis
Mr. P.: Go to hell
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Myrnin flicked the silver ring on his rig...
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"Don't they teac...
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RACHEL CAINE Don't do me any favors, Glass Ass," Jason snapped.
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RACHEL CAINE Jason talking about Michael -
"Don't do me any favors, Glass Ass," Jason snapped.
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“I’m stil...
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RACHEL CAINE What about Myrnin?'
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"Says the kid who came back....
RACHEL CAINE Funny how physics didn't go away when you were murdered.
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RACHEL CAINE karma's a bitch, and so am I
RACHEL CAINE Don't play his game. Play yours.
RACHEL CAINE I hardly broke any laws at all. I should drive more often.
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RACHEL CAINE You brought me grenades. You are officially the best girlfriend ever.
RACHEL CAINE Stop being so..."
"Charming?Attractive?Irresistible?
"I'm going with arrogant.
RACHEL CAINE No bacon for you."
"Then no eggs for you. Either of you."
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RACHEL CAINE Bathroom, maybe? Which is where I need to go."
"Ooh, me, too," Eve said.
The boys rolled ...
RACHEL CAINE I can handle Glory."
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RACHEL CAINE You better check your playlist. Because you are on the wrong track.
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She ...
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RACHEL CAINE Are you armed?" Oliver asked her.
She glanced down at her backpack and instantly, instinctively...
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RACHEL CAINE And somewhere in heaven, Versace sheds a single, perfect tear.
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RACHEL CAINE What in the hell is going on around here?” she yelled. “Could you guys keep it down to aircraft-...
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RACHEL CAINE Mom logic.
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RACHEL CAINE The vamp in McMann’s stared at me. I guess he didn’t like the Goth look. Most of them don’t; s...
RACHEL CAINE But – Michael, you said you didn’t know Oliver, and–”
“I didn’t, until he killed me...
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RACHEL CAINE Unless you want to hang a This Vein for Rent sign around your neck, move already!
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RACHEL CAINE Don’t!” Lillian yelled, and put up her arms when Shane pulled back the bat.
“Hell,�...
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RACHEL CAINE Not bad,” she finally said. “At least you left out the oh-my-God sauce this time.”
“Mad...
RACHEL CAINE You’re still here. No beer. I’m not corrupting a minor.”
“But you’re a minor,” she ...
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RACHEL CAINE She's nice when it suits her. That doesn't mean she's nice.
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RACHEL CAINE Give the girl some credit. At least she told you, instead of letting you figure it out on your own."...
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RACHEL CAINE She smells better," Claire said. "And she made me cookies.
RACHEL CAINE Trav, if you cross us -- "
"I know. You'll get me. I'll try not to pee all over myself in terro...
RACHEL CAINE You were leaving, and you didn't even know if I was okay.
RACHEL CAINE Girl, it's an umbrella, not a Lamborghini,
RACHEL CAINE And about Shane, I swear, if he doesn't snap out of it, I'm going to punch him in the face. Well, pu...
RACHEL CAINE Monica's eyes were fierce and fiery, but she didn't move, and after a second she turned and ran up t...
RACHEL CAINE I like the sound of that, crashing Monica's party," he glanced at Michael, then quickly away. "What ...
RACHEL CAINE You shouldn't be afraid of me because I'm a vampire. You ought to be scared because you just trash-t...
RACHEL CAINE What time is it?"
"Three a.m. Michael's making a snack. You want anything?"
"Um...no. Than...
RACHEL CAINE Things happen. Things that physics and math and crap that gets measured in a lab can't explain. Peop...
RACHEL CAINE And girls are much more mature.” Eve nodded wisely. “So you’re about ten years older than Shan...
RACHEL CAINE I don’t read Latin!” “You’re kidding. I thought all geniuses read Latin. Isn’t that the in...
RACHEL CAINE Run first, mourn later.
RACHEL CAINE In her experience, groups of friends like that just didn't open up to include underage, undersized g...
RACHEL CAINE He loped off down the hall, and she felt a pure burst of fury. Boys. Why were they always such dumba...
RACHEL CAINE We're not exactly going to the wilderness, Shane. You don't have to take everything. There are vendi...
RACHEL CAINE Bite Me!-Shane Collins to Eve Rosser.
The Morganville Vampire Series
RACHEL CAINE Unfortunately, mortal life is very fragile, and very short. Yours could be shorter than usual.
RACHEL CAINE Y si eres tan lista como pareces, deberías saber que es una estupidez creer que la ciencia lo resue...
RACHEL CAINE No, no era una superheroína, pero era otra cosa. Era una persona... con recursos.
RACHEL CAINE bite me. oh wait, you can't from way out there."
- eve
RACHEL CAINE I can't simply adopt strays because they seem winsome.
RACHEL CAINE Hell, I can't hit a girl. Here, Claire. You hit her.
RACHEL CAINE Okay, that really shouldn't have happened. And we’re not going to talk about that, right? Ever?”...
RACHEL CAINE At least you left out the oh-my-God sauce this time."
"Made myself a batch with it," Shane said...
RACHEL CAINE We're clear," she said. "You're kind of a psycho. I get that
RACHEL CAINE shane:do we have a choice
michael:dont think so
shane:then screw im gitting tired lets go...
RACHEL CAINE That’s kind of a leap, but the Russian judge gave you a nine point five for style, so OK.
RACHEL CAINE Run first," Shane said. "Mourn later."
It was the perfect motto for Morganville."
"C...
RACHEL CAINE Hell,” Shane spit in disgust. “I can’t hit a girl. Here, Claire. You hit her.” He tossed her...
RACHEL CAINE Mortals simply aren't what they used to be," he said. "A thousand years ago, you would have bartered...
RACHEL CAINE There once was a kindly farmer who found a viper freezing on the ground in the snow. Please help me,...
RACHEL CAINE Glad it was you and not me," Shane said, and offered Myrin a hand up. "Any brain damage?"
"Sinc...
RACHEL CAINE Did you bring me a hamburger?
Did I-No,Myrnin,I didn't bring you a hamburger.Bizarre.He'd neve...
RACHEL CAINE I didn't bring you here," he said. "You think you're Miss Special Destiny of the year?"
"No," I...
RACHEL CAINE You're dead," I repeated. "So why are you in my dream?"
He raised the bill of his olive drab ba...
RACHEL CAINE It's been the toughest week of my life, not touching you. Not talking to you. Waiting to see what yo...
RACHEL CAINE Shane’s dad stopped the van,” Claire said. “He took Monica as a hostage.”
For a second,...
RACHEL CAINE He dunked his tea bag and watched the results critically. “I really must get a new supplier. This ...
RACHEL CAINE What’s burning?”
“Your brain.
RACHEL CAINE Um… Eve…can I ask…?”
“About what?” Eve was still frowning at the pasta like she sus...
RACHEL CAINE You know, I thought you were a mousy little thing when I first saw you, Claire, but you're not, are ...
RACHEL CAINE I am sorry my decisions do not meet with your approval, but nevertheless, they are mine, and the con...
RACHEL CAINE Mom and Dad had a lot to answer for, she decided. She couldn’t even be rude to evil
vampires ...
RACHEL CAINE