Quotes About Manipulation

Seduction takes many forms and not all of them involve the body.

Emilia, you are a bad girl. Is this how you pulled Kashday Murkaster's secrets from him? Pillow talk, they call it, don't they? All the great femme fatales of human history were adept at it.

Beth and I read the message speechlessly; the unctuous words seemed to drip with Avirzah'e's innate sarcasm.

Aninka had no idea what she had been mixed up in, poor child. Neither did Enniel have any intention of enlightening her too fully. She would not understand the implications, and might prove obstructive to his aims.

I am a manipulative person, whom some might call evil, because I like to interfere in people's lives.

You look furtive, my dear. I hope you haven't done any interfering in that quarter as well.

I will give you meat, Salamiel thought, and once you eat of my offerings, you will be mine.

Khaster is dead," Taropat said. "He was killed by the man you would have me serve. You are all under his spell. I pity you.

As trainees, I and my peers were taught not only how to enter the soulscape and wander it at will, but also to manipulate the information and symbolism we might find there.

Sofia, Lily decided, was a person-eater. Not just a man-eater, although she'd undoubtedly gnawed a few masculine bones in her time. She was also a liar. Lily was intrigued by her, but also wary and a little frightened.

Othman reflected, as he undid his belt to his leather trousers that it was so easy to manipulate them once they had the first taste.

Ays shrugged and threw back his head to lower the hela frond into his open mouth. It tasted yeasty and salty upon his tongue and swiftly extended tender fingers of manipulation into his mind.

Meggie had probably also noticed, or been informed, of a change in Delmar's behaviour. Now, he was entirely Tamara's creature. She had primed him with talk of Shemyaza and subdued his instinctive fears.

Our race is famous for its cabals within cabals.

He was frightened of being seduced by this woman into believing she had their welfare at heart.

Formless powers compete for control around us, and we are their pawns.

Owen thought that if Louis looked the way he had the last time he'd seen him, he might believe what he was saying, but this was a man who'd been charmed by Peveral Othman, who'd been altered by him.

The princess saw into the mind of her father, understood then its workings; cunning and twisting.

You are his creature and you must lure him to me.

He will shape a new god, in the image of his own fear, and he will make resentful enemies, where before there were only resigned puppets.

The Pelleth were too eager to have Daniel in their ranks, and although Meggie and Betsy cleverly disguised their fervour, Emma could sense it behind their words, boiling away like a kettle on the old black range.

Well, when Kashday met Helen, we had no idea what a viper he was bringing into our nest. She was bright, too intelligent to be a dependent.

It was as if Tatrini had been waiting for the right moment to show her claws, and her image to the people now seemed part of a carefully contrived plan.

I thought I could make a weapon out of you. It was not my desire to make you a force for the good particularly, just a force for effect.