Badass Quotes

Perhaps I can stay by the fire and mend your socks and scream if I hear any strange noises.

~ Kristin Cashore

How long have you been with Raphael?”“You ask a lot of questions for a dead woman.”“What can I say? I prefer to die well-informed.”-Venom and Elena

~ Nalini Singh

When you get more middle fingers than thumbs up, it's a progress.

~ Aishwarya Shiva Pareek

Um, enough apologies, okay?Just get on with being your badass self.

~ Scott Stabile

Maxon: “To be clear, no one agrees with you.”America: “To be clear, I don’t care.

~ Kiera Cass

Nobody calls me 'blondie' and keeps their kneecaps.

~ Cassandra Clare

How did you get in here?' (...) 'How I got here isn't important, because I could do it twenty times again, each time a different way.

~ Rachel Aaron

Your wit never ceases to underwhelm me.

~ A.e. Kirk

Don't think for second you are not a badass warrior. That's precisely your problem, you don't realize how amazingly brilliant and super kickass you are. Your potential is only limited by your mind.

~ Melody Lee

Sybil’s female forebears had valiantly backed up their husbands as distant embassies were besieged, had given birth on a camel or in the shade of a stricken elephant, had handed around the little gold chocolates while trolls were trying to break into the compound, or had merely stayed at home and nursed such bits of husbands and sons as made it back from endless little wars.  The result was a species of woman who, when duty called, turned into solid steel.

~ Terry Pratchett

Her stories were made of badass women teasing monsters and running wild with dragons.

~ Melody Lee

I do not take orders from women.”“My men do not have a similar problem.” Lada lifted a hand. The man fell, a crossbow bolt sticking out of his chest.

~ Kiersten White

Lady Katsa, is it? Yes, Lord Prince.I've heard you have one eye green as the Middluns grasses, and the other eye blue as the sky.Yes, Lord Prince.I've heard you can kill a man with the nail of your smallest finger.She smiled. Yes, Lord Prince.Does it make it easier?I don't understand you.To have beautiful eyes. Does it lighten the burden of your Grace, to know you have beautiful eyes?

~ Kristin Cashore

Since the dawn of time, nearly every man (and I'd wager to guess most women) has, at his most visceral level, secretly desired for one thing - to be standing triumphantly atop a heaping pile of his slain enemies, holding a gigantic axe aloft while some unbelievably attractive member of whatever gender he's attracted to desperately clutches his leg like it's the last life raft on the HMS Titanic.

~ Ben Thompson

At that moment, Harry fully understood for the first time why people said Dumbledore was the only wizard Voldemort had ever feared. The look upon Dumbledore's face as he stared down at the unconscious form of Mad-Eye moody was more terrible than Harry could have ever imagined. There was no benign smile upon Dumbledore's face, no twinkle in the eyes behind the spectacles. There was cold fury in every line of the ancient face; a sense of power radiated from Dumbledore as though he were giving off burning heat.

~ J.k. Rowling

The thought had crossed my mind, that in order to save this world from Hell, I might have to become the Devil.

~ Dean F. Wilson

My sister burns, and she does not burn for you.

~ E.k. Johnston

If there's any guy crazy enough to attack me, I'm going to show him the end of the world -- close up. I'm going to let him see the kingdom come with his own eyes. I'm going to send him straight to the southern hemisphere and let the ashes of death rain all over him and the kangaroos and the wallabies.

~ Haruki Murakami

Badass.' My grandfather sampled the flavor of the word. It did not seem to revolt him, but it was nothing he needed ever to sample again.

~ Michael Chabon

When I try to achieve greatness, it spits on me the night before.

~ Monroe Ariel

In Heathrow a vast chunk of memory detached itself from a blank bowl of airport sky and fell on him. He vomited into a blue plastic canister without breaking stride.

~ William Gibson

You aren’t jealous that Agatha gets a boy and a crown and a kingdom and everything else?” Hort pressed in disbelief. “You aren’t jealous that Agatha’s a queen?” He saw her stop at the gates, faced away as students streamed past. “A tiny bit, of course,” she said softly. “But then I remember . .  .” Sophie looked back, smiling bright as a diamond. “I’m me.

~ Soman Chainani

The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them

~ Queen Victoria

I do not know the word 'quit'. Either I never did, or I have abolished it.

~ Susan Butcher

Dynamite is loyal to the one who lights the fuse.

~ Dean F. Wilson

Dorothea: What the fuck are you?Nix: A man who wanted to be a God...then changed his mind.

~ Clive Barker

I am beyond good and evil at this point. I am beyond the lines drawn in the sand by society at this juncture. I am beyond fear, beyond religion, beyond the morals and mores. I am Lord of the Fucking Flies. Do you understand?

~ Jason S. Hornsby

Technology won’t protect you from being attacked for fresh water. A badass blade will. Back in Eden where I grew up, the closest thing to knifework I’d experienced was cutting up a loaf of warm bread. Last night, I’d gutted a wild prairie chicken after scaling a rock face to find its nest and slit its throat. What a difference a year makes.

~ Georgia Clark

So fuck Dan. Fuck the police. Fuck the doctors. Fuck Jerome. And fuck the infected!

~ Bobby Adair

You do bad things to me, Carrie,” he grinned, “Very bad things.

~ Kassandra Cross

They are soldiers. They depend upon routine, and anything out of the ordinary will give them pause. And they are men. They hate to be insulted, but they love to hear others mocked. And they are fools, because they cannot imagine that a woman alone in the woods would be a threat.

~ Kiersten White

When you are made to pay for such insolence, I shall revel in your ruin.

~ A.e. Kirk

My gaze moved to Vance. He was looking up at me and I could read nothing in his eyes.Another pop? I asked.He shook his head but kept watching me. I looked at the floor and started from the room.I had to pass Vance's chair to get to the kitchen. As I did, I slowed and as if it had a mind of it's own, my hand came out and I ran the backs of my finger's along Vance's jaw.

~ Kristen Ashley

Through me you go to the grief wracked city; Through me you go to everlasting pain; Through me you go a pass among lost souls. Justice inspired my exalted Creator: I am a creature of the Holiest Power, of Wisdom in the Highest and of Primal Love. Nothing till I was made was made, only eternal beings. And I endure eternally. Surrender as you enter, every hope you have.

~ Dante Alighieri

People should either be caressed or crushed. If you do them minor damage they will get their revenge; but if you cripple them there is nothing they can do. If you need to injure someone, do it in such a way that you do not have to fear their vengeance.

~ Niccolò Machiavelli

But still she stood, ready to get back at it. Badass and admirable.

~ Cristin Harber

You have two choices, sweetheart. Answer my questions, or get a monster new facial piercing.

~ Dennis Sharpe

Save the drama for the queens. Stand alone be a wolf, a rebel, a warrior, a savage, a badass. Be anything but a damn drama queen!

~ Melody Lee

No,' she said. 'No, I don't reckon that's what I do now. Are you watchin', Mrs Gogol? Are you watchin' real close?' Her gaze travelled the room and rested for just a fraction of a second on Magrat. Then she reached over, carefully, and thrust her arm up to the elbow into the burning torch. And the doll in Erzulie Gogol's hands burst into flame. It went on blazing even after the witch had screamed and dropped it on to the floor. It went on burning until Nanny Ogg ambled over with a jug of fruit juice from the buffet, whistling between her teeth, and put it out. Granny withdrew her hand. It was unscathed.

~ Terry Pratchett

W-what are you?Selena looked down at her rival. What you should have been and never were. The Queen of the Witches.

~ Anne Bishop