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“Rosa is pushing all the buttons.”
― Justine Larbalestier, My Sister Rosa

“I tell her I don't have a broken heart. It's still beating, the blood still moves around my body; it only aches when I remember to breathe.”
― Justine Larbalestier, Liar

“I can critique the bad; I can take the good, and I can add whatever I want.”
― Justine Larbalestier

“My father is a liar and so am I.
But I’m going to stop. I have to stop.
I will tell you my story and I will tell it straight. No lies, no omissions.
That’s my promise.
This time I truly mean it.”
― Justine Larbalestier, Liar

“Danders Anders squealed with joy. The most malodorous sound in the world.”
― Justine Larbalestier, How to Ditch Your Fairy

“Would you like to press charges?" the officer asked. She was not serious. Nobody pressed charges against stars of A-stream teams, especially ones like Danders Anders who were in their final year and on the brink of superlative careers.
"I'd love to press charges," Rochelle answered. "That would be joyous."
The officer grinned. "Wouldn't it?”
― Justine Larbalestier, How to Ditch Your Fairy

“All the male faces in the room turned to me as if they were flowers and I the sun.”
― Justine Larbalestier, How to Ditch Your Fairy

“That was what magic was: greed. Magic wielders didn't wield magic; it wielded them”
― Justine Larbalestier, Magic's Child

“Her eyelids fluttered. "Francis," she murmured.
"Cathy," he murmured back.
"Heathcliff," muttered Kit, as he set about making sandwiches.”
― justine larbalestier, Team Human

“He didn't mean to corner me, but when you're as tall and wide as he is and I'm as little as I am, merely standing beside me constitutes menacement.”
― Justine Larbalestier, How to Ditch Your Fairy

“I don't think that now: half of everything is something, not nothing. Lots of somethings”
― Justine Larbalestier, Liar

“If you are causing trouble, look for allies, always.”
― Justine Larbalestier

“A difference in self loathing? Please. The only difference between a gun and a rope is the time it takes to tie the knot.”
― Justine Larbalestier, Zombies Vs. Unicorns

“Really, according to the shrinks, I am angry at everyone ever. Especially them.

I am all anger and resentment all the time.

Not one of them has ever suggested that maybe I lie because the world is better the way I tell it.”
― Justine Larbalestier, Liar

“Zombies are the proletariat. Long live the workers!”
― Justine Larbalestier, Zombies Vs. Unicorns

“‘Expect the best, but prepare for the worst.’ I'm good at the first part, crap at the second.”
― Justine Larbalestier, Magic or Madness

“Who’s the bigger liar?

Me or them?

Isn’t lying about love the worst lie? Isn’t that worse than anything I’ve ever done?”
― Justine Larbalestier, Liar

“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, Razorhurst

“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

“People save their strong opinions for women. Why don’t they look at men? If I have to read another book or see another movie about a woman being courageous, I’ll throw up. Where are the books and movies about the men who do this stuff? But no, it’s always about the women. They not only have to get through it, they’re supposed to stand up, become a symbol, allow their whole lives to become derailed and defined by it. What if you don’t want to? People bang on about women having the right to make choices—well, they need to realise women have the right to choose in these matters, too.”
― Kirsty Eagar, Summer Skin

“I reserve my right to choices, too, and I choose to behave badly.”
― Kirsty Eagar, Summer Skin

“You want to pass for a normal person? Don’t tiptoe into people’s bedrooms at night! Ever!’
‘I can be creepy in front of you.’
‘No, you can’t! You need to go now.’
‘I’ll go watch the parentals.”
― Justine Larbalestier , My Sister Rosa

“Why did you push her ?' Rosa screams again. I realise she's pointing at me.”
― Justine Larbalestier, My Sister Rosa

“Killing things shouldn't make you happy, Rosa. That's why they're worried.”
― Justine Larbalestier, My Sister Rosa

“Rosa!" Sally says. "The police are here to help you, not to hear a lecture on comparative murder rates.”
― Justine Larbalestier, My Sister Rosa

“She promised to be good. She wasn't.”
― Justine Larbalestier, My Sister Rosa

“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, My Sister Rosa

“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, My Sister Rosa