Justine Larbalestier Quotes

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.

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.

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.

If you are causing trouble, look for allies, always.

She promised to be good. She wasn't.

I can critique the bad; I can take the good, and I can add whatever I want.

I don't think they're terrible parents. They love us. I think they're negligent parents. That's not the same thing.

See you in the fall.

Rosa!" Sally says. "The police are here to help you, not to hear a lecture on comparative murder rates.

Killing things shouldn't make you happy, Rosa. That's why they're worried.

Wolves are social. They need their pack.

The job of every generation is to discover the flaws of the one that came before it. That's part of growing up, figuring out all the ways your parents and their friends are broken.