Justine Larbalestier Quotes

The job of every generation is to discover the flaws of the one that came before it. That's part of growing up, figuring out all the ways your parents and their friends are broken.

~ Justine Larbalestier

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

~ Justine Larbalestier

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

~ Justine Larbalestier

Didn’t anyone ask you where your parents are?They asked. Especially about my parents.What did you tell them?I said I ate them.Jesus, Rosa.

~ Justine Larbalestier

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

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

~ Justine Larbalestier

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

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

~ Justine Larbalestier

She promised to be good. She wasn't.

~ Justine Larbalestier

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

See you in the fall.

~ Justine Larbalestier

Wolves are social. They need their pack.

~ Justine Larbalestier

Eating good food is my favourite thing in the whole world. Nothing is more blissful.

~ Justine Larbalestier