{"quotes":[{"text":"We match each other stroke for stroke until I get a hit on her right arm. She tries to switch sword arms, but I jab my scim at her wrist faster than she can parry. Her scim goes flying, and I tackle her. Her white-blonde hair tumbles free of her bun.“Surrender!” I pin her down at the wrists, but she trashes and rips one arm free, scrabbling for a dagger at her waist. Steel stabs at my ribs, and seconds later, I am on my back with a blade at my throat.“Ha!” She leans down, her hair falling around us like a shimmering silver curtain.","author":"Sabaa Tahir","tags":["badass-girl","badassery","bet","blade","dagger","elias-veturius","fight","helene-aquilla"],"id":9211,"author_id":"Sabaa+Tahir"},{"text":"Put your f***ing finger down now before I break it off.","author":"Nicole Castro","tags":["badassery","carpenter","hero"],"id":20970,"author_id":"Nicole+Castro"},{"text":"My name's Jean Tannen, and I'm the ambush.","author":"Scott Lynch","tags":["badassery","fantasy","humor"],"id":22059,"author_id":"Scott+Lynch"},{"text":"You don’t even know me, or what I am capable of, boy.","author":"S.R. Crawford","tags":["assertiveness","badass-character","badass-women","badassery","brave","courage","fantasy","fearless","powerful"],"id":24056,"author_id":"S.R.+Crawford"},{"text":"Please!’ That word didn’t make sense to Nico. The Underworld had no mercy. It only had justice. ‘You’re already dead,’ Nico said. ‘You’re a ghost with no tongue, no memory. You won’t be sharing any secrets.","author":"Rick Riordan","tags":["badassery","justice","nico-di-angelo","underworld"],"id":60010,"author_id":"Rick+Riordan"},{"text":"God must think her a badass because he’d handed her this moment, and he didn’t dole out shit she couldn’t handle. That was a fact taught long ago by that miserable bitch called life.","author":"Cristin Harber","tags":["alpha-male","alpha-male-romance","badass-lady","badass-women","badassery","female-characters","military-romance","romantic-suspense"],"id":69791,"author_id":"Cristin+Harber"},{"text":"They always always understimate women.","author":"Susan Ee","tags":["badassery","feminism","totally-awesome"],"id":72648,"author_id":"Susan+Ee"},{"text":"What are you? The pregnant MacGyver?” “Best compliment I’ve had in a while.","author":"Cristin Harber","tags":["alpha-male","alpha-male-romance","badass-lady","badass-women","badassery","female-characters","funny-humor","military-romance","romantic-suspense"],"id":143926,"author_id":"Cristin+Harber"},{"text":"Everything's going to be okay', because that's what I wanted him to say and it's what he wanted to say and that's what you do when the curtain is falling — you give the line that the audience wants to hear.","author":"Rick Yancey","tags":["aliens","apocalypse","badassery","cassie-sullivan","hopelessness","humanity","the-5th-wave"],"id":188845,"author_id":"Rick+Yancey"},{"text":"It's not your job to like me, it's mine.","author":"Bryon Katie","tags":["badassery","confidence"],"id":301859,"author_id":"Bryon+Katie"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":13,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}