Quotes About Manipulation

The world bent to the will of Grayson Hawthorne. What money couldn't buy him, those eyes probably did.

Is it still a lie," Jameson asked loftily, "if you're masking what matters, but what you're saying is technically true?

Little grudge?" I repeated. The last time I'd been this close to Thea, she had admitted to setting me up to attend my debut in Texas society dressed like a dead girl. "You play mind games. And Rebecca almost got me killed!

Eén gunst. Ik bepaal waar en wanneer ik die gunst wil, en er wordt niet gevraagd waarom.' Emilia lachte haar allerliefste lach... 'Deal?' Tandenknarsend schudde ik haar hand... 'Deal.

Each word the dead man said made this entire situation feel that much eerier. How much of what had happened since he'd died had he foreseen? Not just foreseen, but planned, moving us all around like pawns?

Wie weten het nog meer?' vroeg Grayson op dat ongeïnteresseerd klinkende troonopvolgerstoontje van hem dat je de indruk gaf dat hij degene die hij de vraag stelde een gunst verleende, aangezien hij het antwoord ook met geweld uit hun gedachten had kunnen trekken.

Tara hadn't managed to pick his pockets, and Chloe had only halfway seduced him, but Lucy's open adoration and obvious cheerfulness weren't running up against any barriers at all.

Goed dan,' zei ik knarsetandend. 'Maar Drake krijgt niets.' Alisa glimlachte kort haar tanden bloot. 'Die muilkorf ik gewoon omdat ik dat leuk vind.

I knew the exact moment that Toby saw the trap I had laid. "Horrible girl," he whispered roughly, and the tenderness in his eyes when he said it almost took me down.

One: He's Michael. Two: he's scheduled for a meltdown. Three: Lia had been miss Rosy Sunshine since she got downstairs, and Lia doesn't do roses or sunshine unless she's screwing with someone or deeply upset. -Dean Redding

Sometimes we're at the mercy of other people. We don't even understand the power they have over us until it's too late.

May 13 Deduction. Reduction. Redaction. How much has been redacted from the carefully curated version of our story?

Conquerors, my son, consider as true history only what they have themselves fabricated.

Mais dites-vous bien une chose: une femme vous roulera toujours quand elle voudra en prendre la peine.»

doing just what her father hated most—showing how her pretended insolence, which he thought real, had more power over Heathcliff than his kindness. How the boy would do her bidding in anything, and his only when it suited his own inclination.

I brought him down one evening and just set him in a chair, and never touched him afterwards. In two hours, I called Joseph to carry him up again; and, since then, my presence is as potent on his nerves as a ghost; and I fancy he sees me often, though I am not near.

The person who wants out of the relationship always gets her way.

Grab his penis like this, and I guarantee, it's a done deal.

It never ceases to amaze me how foolproof the rule is: the person who cares the least (or pretends to) holds the power.

I bet, said Mulch, that you would set the world on fire just to watch it burn. Opal tapped the suggestion into a small electronic notepad on her pocket computer. Thanks for that. Now, tell me everything.

Is that how you're going to take me? Scare me into voluntarily coming aboard, then steal my Ice Cube? It's always cubes with you, noted Foaly, somewhat randomly. What's wrong with a nice sphere?

The little boys did as they were told, eager to please their deranged brother. Ici, garcon , they chorused, pudgy fingers raised. And then from the corner of his mouth, Myles whispered to his twin, Artemis simple-toon.

Of course. Opal is toying with our emotions for her own gratification. Nothing more. She wishes to place herself in a position of power, emotionally.

Ma was using her for-company voice. Sweet on the outside but with an underlying death threat.