Feisty Quotes

“She says she glories in being abandoned”
― J. M. Barrie

“You're pretty miserable, Mother, and you're married." - Rose Calloway”
― Krista Ritchie, Ricochet

“Maybe Father thought I was bad girl enough and didn't need a slutty outfit to emphasize that further.”
― Cora Reilly, Bound by Hatred

“And I'll be a witch in hell before I let someone hurt my dogs.”
― Barbra Annino, Tiger's Eye

“I glared as I stood over him. "We all have skeletons, Henry Davenport." I flipped my wrist to reveal the symbol of the Wited Rose. "Some more than others.”
― Freedom Matthews, Inherited

“Campbell Road, so he had been told by long-serving colleagues, and some of The Bunk’s inhabitants, was home to the most notorious criminals: thieves, prostitutes, fraudsters – every sort of rogue and vagabond drifted through this slum. Unbelievable as it seemed to Franks, some had settled and been resident a very long while. If a couple of women – one who looked like she’d had seven bells beaten out of her – wanted to set about a well-known brass, it didn’t take a genius to work out that one of their old men was playing away. Bickerstaff might be a stickler for doing things by the book but, in the great scheme of things, this was a petty domestic incident. The Bunk community had its own system of justice. Franks agreed with it: leave them be to shovel up their own shit.”
― Kay Brellend, The Street

“A Girl with Game is in control of her emotions, but she shows her feisty side when the time permits. This is why men respect her. She remains a challenge because she is an equal and respectable opponent but not spineless. Her ability to fight for what she wants in a smart way is what distinguishes her from the girls that men grow bored of.”
― Leandra De Andrade, This Girl's Got Game: A Smart Girls Guide to Having the Upper Hand over Men in This Game Called Love

“Feisty,' Casteel murmured. 'I like it.'

'I'm this close to shooting her in the face with an arrow,' I warned him.

'I like that, too,' he replied.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire

“You're a feisty little thing, aren't you?”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Shadow in the Ember

“She is anxious that no one should disturb the sleeping dogs. I, my good George, I go to disturb them, I go to make the dog fight! There is drama there.”
― Agatha Christie, The Under Dog and Other Stories