Ally Carter Quotes

I wasn't that kid where if you told me 'No,' I was just going to do it anyway.

I'm not a big fan of doing what my mother wants me to do, like any daughter.

At Murry Bergtraum High I wanted to be as different from my father as possible. So I acted out in school, I was very anti-authority.

I was a real rebel. I got expelled.

One time, my mom told us, 'No TV.' It was 3 P.M., and I was sneaking it in. She put her hand on the back of the TV to see if it was warm, and it was. So she pulled the cord out of the wall, opened the second-floor window, and just threw it out the window.

One time my mom tried to ground me, but that lasted 15 minutes.

I drove my mum and dad mad.

You always rebel what your parents want you to listen to.

It's true that I've never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents.

As a teenager, I was perpetually grounded. I was stubborn rather than rebellious.

Disobedience is essentially a prideful power struggle against someone in authority over us. It can be a parent, a priesthood leader, a teacher, or ultimately God. A proud person hates the fact that someone is above him. He thinks this lowers his position.

I think of myself as unconventional, I guess. I maybe always had a problem with authority, like a stubbornness about what's expected - despite wanting to get some recognition through performing - but also not always wanting to do the expected thing.

I did rebel. I was the rebel in my family, because my dad wanted me to go and just travel with him.

How do you rebel in a family of rebels?

I could never take orders from anyone.

I've never really been a rebellious teen.

What I was really into as a kid, anything that drove my mother crazy or made her nervous, and not much has changed.

I was such a strong-willed child, my parents weren't sure how to deal with me.

It's natural to want to rebel against what your parents do.

My rebellion was telling my dad, "No, you're wrong, you don't know what's best for me. I'm not gonna waste my time in college." You know the story. He thought he was an abject failure 'cause he didn't convince me to go to college. I didn't rebel against my dad's economic status. I didn't rebel against what I thought were old-fashioned, archaic moral values. I didn't rebel by going out and wrecking the car and getting drunk and being irresponsible. I rebelled against their assumption they knew better than I did, what I wanted, and what I needed.

my rebelliousness went so deep that, faced with a can of asparagus that instructed me to open at this end, I always, stubbornly, opened it at the other.

This is my father. Try what you can with him! He won't listen to me, because he remembers what a fool I was when I was a baby.

The most work he did on [the urinals] was to run a brush once or twice apiece, singing some song as loud as he could in time to the swishing brush; then he'd splash in some Clorox and he'd be through. ... And when the Big Nurse...came in to check McMurphy's cleaning assignment personally, she brought a little compact mirror and she held it under the rim of the bowls. She walked along shaking her head and saying, "Why, this is an outrage... an outrage..." at every bowl. McMurphy sidled right along beside her, winking down his nose and saying in answer, "No; that's a toilet bowl...a TOILET bowl.

I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience.

Kill if you will, but command me nothing!