Quotes About Control

El poder es infeccioso. El poder es insaciable.

I wanted to show you that you could trust me, that you didn't need to give me orders for me to do things. I wanted to show you that I believed you'd thought it all through. But that's no way to rule. And it's not really even trust, when someone can order you to do it anyway.

Fire can either burn down your house or warm it.

Let me be feared and never again afraid.

I didn't understand the horror of being so powerful and so utterly powerless all at the same time.

Te estaba imaginando a mi lado, Jude, dándome un montón de ridículas ordenes que, no obstante, obedecí.

No approving of the Evil Overlords

I have trained every day to be dangerous, and he is entirely in my power, yet I'm the one who is afraid.

Yes, fine,' he says, annoyed, trying to push my blade away. I hold it steady, so that the knife cuts in to his skin. He swears and puts a bleeding finger in his mouth. 'What was that for?' 'For fun.

I keep thinking of the lazy blink of Cardan's lashes over his coal-bright eyes. He looked gleeful, gloating, as though my fist tightening on his shirt was exactly what he would have wished. As though, if I struck him, it would be because he had made me do it.

El poder es mucho más fácil de adquirir que de conservar.

Jude here made me her prisoner," he says, and I have to fight down the urge to step heavily on his foot. "She ties very tight knots.

no matter how eager you are for it, you cannot make the moon set nor rise any faster.

Bring me the crown, Cardan,' Balekin says. Prince Cardan turns on his elder brother the same cool and calculated gaze with which he has regarded so many other creatures before he's torn the wings from their back, before he's cast them in to rivers or sent them from the Court entirely. 'No, brother. I do not think that I will. I think that if I did not have another reason to cross you, I would do it for spite.

Perhaps I cannot be glamoured, but that doesn't mean I cannot be broken." -The Wicked Prince

Power,' he said. 'Power is the ability to get what you want. Power is the ability to be the one making the decisions.

It is no life to be always under someone's control, subject to their will and whim.

All power is cursed. The most terrible among us will do anything to get it, and those who'd wield power best don't want it thrust upon them.

He reaches toward me, as though he's going to run his fingers over the bruises. I bring up the crossbow, and he thinks better of it.

You can't win when someone else makes all the rules

Maybe you're about to reveal your evil scheme and bend me to your will. Just so you know, I don't think it will be very hard to bend me to your will.

I turn and press the point of my knife directly underneath his chin. 'Jude?' he asks, up against the wall, pronouncing my name carefully, as though to avoid slurring. I am not sure I have ever heard him use my actual name before. 'Surprised?' I ask, a fierce grin starting on my face. The most important boy in Faerie and my enemy, finally in my power. It feels even better than I thought it would. 'You shouldn't be.

You can take a thing when no one's looking. But defending it, even with all the advantage on your side, is no easy task," Madoc told her with a laugh. She looked up to find him offering her a hand. "Power is much easier to acquire than it is to hold on to.

Mine. The language of love is like that, possessive. That should be the first warning that it's not going to encourage anyone's betterment.