Quotes About Control

Get down on your knees," Cardan says, looking insufferably pleased with himself. His fury has transmuted into gloating. "Beg. Make it pretty. Flowery. Worthy of me.

He'd like to make you believe he's our leader, but it's more than Nicasia likes power, I like dramatics, and Valerian likes violence. Cardan can provide us with all three, or at least excuses for all three.' 'Dramatics?' I echo. 'I like for things to happen, for stories to unfold. And if I can't find a good enough story, I make one.' He looks every inch the trickster in that moment.

Haz uso de tu poder sin que parezca que lo tienes.

It's all yours.

You want to know what I did to make him raise me up?' I ask, leaning toward her, close enough that she can feel the warmth of my breath. 'I kissed him on the mouth, and then I threatened to kiss him some more if he didn't do exactly what I wanted.' 'Liar,' she hisses. 'If you're such good friends,' I say, repeating her own words back to her with malicious satisfaction, 'why don't you ask him?

So long as I live, you will obey this.

I hate you," I whisper before he can speak. He tilts my face to his. "Say it again," he says as the imps comb my hair and place the ugly, stinking crown on my head. His voice is low. The words are for me alone. I pull out of his grip, but not before I see his expression. He looks as he did when he was forced to answer my questions, when he admitted his desire for me. He looks as though he's confessing.

No," Vivi told him in her somber little voice. "I'm never going anywhere with you." "I'm your father," he told her, his voice harsh, rising like the crack of a lash. "You are my heir and my blood, and you will obey me in this as in all things.

Okay. Do you ever feel so angry that you think you could devour the whole world and still not be satisfied? Like you don't know how to stop feeling that way and it scares you, but that just makes you angry too?

Leave,' Cardan tells Locke. 'I didn't summon her here for your pleasure.' 'You are most ungenerous. If you truly cared for me, you would have,' Locke says as he hops down from the dais. 'Take Taryn home,' I call after him. If it wasn't for her, I would punch him right in the face.

Cardan puts up a hand. 'No, no, enough. It's all too tedious to explain. I declare this meeting at an end.' His fingers make a flicking gesture towards the door. 'Leave us. I tire of the lot of you.' I have a long way to go before I can manage that level of shameless arrogance.

the game of kings and princes, of queens and crowns, but to play it I must be pitiless.

Power is infectious. Power is greedy.

I have seen what power does to people. And I have seen how those who pledge loyalty come to resent their oaths and wish for the destruction of the one who holds them. I was never less free than when I ruled.

It doesn't feel good exactly, to be in danger, but it does feel good to be the cause of events rather than being swept along into them.

You like it, don't you? Playing games with us? Pulling our strings and seeing how we dance?

He ought to have been taught better than to let his emotions show on his face. Instead, he assumed that others would care about his feelings, so he didn't bother to hide them.

When there is a lot of power concentrated in one place, there are plenty of scraps to fight over.

You may command the sky,' the horned man in the golden scale mail returns. 'But alas, we are here on the ground.

I am kind of in control and out of control at the same time.

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

Poder. El poder es la capacidad para conseguir lo que quieres. Es la capacidad para convertirse en el que toma las decisiones. ¿Y como se consigue ese poder? El poder se consigue por la fuerza.

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

Jude, he'd said, running a hand up my calf, are you afraid of me?