James Dashner Quotes

Accordingly if the devil should say, 'Do not drink,' you should reply to him, 'On this very account, because you forbid it, I shall drink, and what is more, I shall drink a generous amount. Thus one must always do the opposite of that which Satan prohibits. What do you think is my reason for drinking wine undiluted, talking freely, and eating more often, if it is not to torment and vex the devil who made up his mind to torment and vex me.

As soon as you tell me to do one thing, I do the opposite. As soon as someone tells me not to get any more tattoos, I have this intense fire burning inside me to cover myself with them. I don't care if it's self-destructive. I just have that need to rebel.

I always do the contrary of what my coaches tell me.

I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.

I hate being forced to do things. I hate people telling me what to do, so I'll do the complete opposite. It's a bit self-destructive sometimes.

fueled above all by the resistance of the forces and ideas opposed to it.

I have a rebellious nature, and being told no is almost the surest way to get me to do something.

I don't know what I would have done to rebel. I don't know what I was rebelling against.

When you stop people from doing certain things, there is a good chance that they will do exactly what they have been told to abjure. That is how human nature is.

You tell me what to do and I'll do the opposite.

I sort of latch onto roles that have something to fight against.

so i do what i do best. i move in the opposite direction.

I'm fundamentally, I think, an outsider. I do my best work and feel most braced with my back to the wall. It's an odd feeling though, writing aginst the current: difficult entirely to disregard the current. Yet of course I shall.

I know very well that one must fight, for one is often in contradiction to the spirit of the age.

There is in the human race some dark spirit of recalcitrance, always pulling us in the direction contrary to that in which we are reasonably expected to go.

I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. It always made me want to do just the opposite.

I will not dance to your war drum!

Lots of people will protest that it's quite unreal and that I'm out of my mind, but that's just too bad

Do you—do you think I want to—do you think I give a—I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU HAVE TO SAY!" Harry roared. "You will," said Dumbledore sadly. "Because you are not nearly as mad at me as you ought to be. If you are to attack me, as I know you are close to doing, I would like to have thoroughly earned it.

If you think you know what I'm doing wrong well you're gonna have to get in line.

Innocence was gone from all our acts. Our habitual state of rebellion became a serious political crime.

The urge to revolt is one of the essential dimensions of human nature.

Til shade is gone, til water is gone Into the shadow with teeth bared Screaming defiance with the last breath To spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the Last Day.

...That it's making a dare to the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare?" ~pg 423