Quotes About Control

Alec flopped down on the opposite side of the fire and glared at them both. "And where have Jace and Clary gone?" "Ah," said Simon delicately. "Who can say..." "Straight people," Alec declared. "Why can't they control themselves?

Will seemed about to lunge off toward the whisperers to administer rough justice, but Jem had a firm grip on the back of his parabatai's coat. Being Jem, Tessa reflected, must be a great deal like being the owner of a thoroughbred dog that liked to bite your guests. You had to have a hand on his collar constantly.

Don't screech like that. You'll wake the dead.

If I have to tie you up and sit on you until this insane whim of yours passes, you are not going to Idris." (Jace Wayland)

Why is it, little Shadowhunter, that your angels are so cold and without mercy? Why do they break that which will not obey them?

what did wards matter when you could create your own reality just by drawing it?

Love takes your choices away.

She'd tried to program it when they'd gotten into the Toyota, but it had refused to turn on. Once, the GPS had only spoken in a heavy German accent for weeks. Julian had decided it was possessed.

I was Marked by a very cute boy with terrible impulse control. I don't remember because I was basically unconscious but everyone was mad at him when I woke up. The end, love Clary.

It was all I could do to not knock him down right there in front of Asher and climb on him. If I stunned him with a frying pan first, he might not struggle too much.…

I should have known the power-hungry slave drivers at River's Edge would see my five days of freedom only as a challenge to be filled.

If you flee, this Comanche will follow you. Anyone who tries to keep you from me will die. Think long and hard on this. I paid a fine bride price. You are my woman. What is mine, I keep.

the basic theme is the dichotomy of womanhood. the woman cut in two. every society creates laws to exercise power over women and exclude certain parts of the woman

Get over it,' Sherlock said, and looked at her husband. 'No, no, bad dog, keep quiet.

He stepped back, cursing. "Hey, haven't you heard of the First Amendment? You jerk!" The security guard, still gunning like a mad scientist, said over the loudspeaker, "Sure, you little shit, and Prince Charles is a Tampax

It's always difficult to play a scene of physical violence because you're always afraid that you don't know your own strength and might hurt someone.

The world is a chessboard, Madam, on which we play out our ploys and follies. You are the Queen, of course. Your moves are the strongest. For myself, I claim only to be a knight, advancing in a crooked progress. Do we move ourselves, do you think, or does a great gloved hand place on our squares

And what would they be scared of? There's nothing to fear in a perfect world, is there?

She turned to Vetch and he caught her hands as they reached out for him. "I wanted power, I always wanted it, but it's stronger than I am! I can't control the Unworld, Vetch, or the real world either. I can't make it do what I want! The forest is too strong." Vetch crouched, his narrow face close to hers. "You will, Chloe. I promise you." He glanced at Mac. "Ask him. God gives no one a gift he cannot master. Right, Priest?

I'm willing to get you've given a good bit of your power away today to something you believe is outside of your control.

I hurled the slipper at him, not caring if I caused his decapitation. (I did not.)

The key to hell picks all locks

Why have boundaries if everyone is going to drive through them, leaving nothing but rubble? No one's going to do what I want. Why should they?" Laura had just perfectly defined powerlessness, and powerlessness in a relationship is one of the main causes of stress or anxiety.

every time she felt angry she should remember that anger is a defence, not a feeling, and to analyze what feeling the anger was covering.