Quotes About Control

You don't have to stay angry because if you don't, there's a bottomless well of fear ready to open up under you.

True power isn't granted. True power can't be taken away.

First I am going to kill you,' she tells him. 'And then I am going to eat you.

For a moment, a desire for vengeance rises in me. Once, she laughed at my humiliation. Now I could gloat before hers. This is what power feels like, pure unfettered power. It's great.

I watch every blow, every flinch. I have little choice. I can shut my eyes, but the sounds are just as terrible. And worst of all is Cardan's empty face, his eyes as dull as lead. Truly, he has come by his cruelty honestly in Balekin's care. He has been raised up in it, instructed in its nuances, honed through it's application. However horrible Cardan might be, I now see what he might become and am truly afraid.

I hate you," I whisper before he can speak. He takes my chin in his fingers, tilting 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 swallow the howl clawing up my throat.

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I want to strike Cardan over and over until I slap that smugness off his face. But if I did, he'd know just how much he scares me.

He rises from the throne. "Come, have a seat." His voice is replete with danger, lush with menace. The flowering branches have sprouted thorns so thickly that petals are barely visible. "This is what you wanted, isn't it?" he asks. "What you sacrificed everything for. Go on. It's all yours.

Fear is not love, but it can appear much the same. So too, power.

Cuando hay mucho poder concentrado en un mismo sitio, hay un montón de sobras por las que pelearse.

I would live down to his every expectation. If I couldn't have his favor, then I would have his wrath.

It turns out that men have more authority, even when they're not real.

You want me to free him? Let's gut him like haddock. Quicker and far more satisfying.

I'm the kind of vampire that you'd be, one who's new at this and basically out of control. I've already killed someone and I can't guarantee I'm not going to do it again. I'm the one who infected this girl.

I feel helpless, as though he's herding me around a chessboard to checkmate.

Power is much easier to acquire than it is to hold on to.

Instead of being afraid, I could become something to fear.

Kill him before he makes you love him.

Each of us carries a sleeping tiger inside, and we can't predict when that cat will wake, stretch, and sharpen its claws.

Zeus does not bring all men's plans to fulfillment.

Surely these things lie on the knees of the gods.

Well you know boys, a nuclear reactor is a lot like women. You just have to read the manual and press the right button.