Quotes About Manipulation

For me the curse is a crutch, but the con is everything.

There's a tipping point with lies, a point where you've said something so many times that it feels truer than the truth.

But how did she make you agree?" I demand. "She has no power. She could pretend to be me, but she couldn't force you-" He puts his hand in his long-fingered hands. "She didn't have to command me, Jude. She didn't have to use any magic. I trust you. I trusted you.

You're a liar, Cassel Sharpe. A lying liar who lies.

You okay?" Anton asks, looking at me like he's trying to figure out if I'm drunk. His plans depend on me. I look as blank as possible and hope that it freaks him out. No point in my being the only miserable one.

I want to tell you so many lies," he says.

There'd always been something wrong with Charlie Hall. Crooked, from the day she was born. Never met a bad decision she wasn't willing to double down on. Had fingers made for picking pockets, a tongue for lying, and a shriveled cherry pit for a heart. If her shadow had been one of those magic ones, she was pretty sure even that thing would have run away.

You think because you can humiliate me, you can control me?

Put your puppet on the throne." said Talathain. "You may make her Queen but she won't be Queen for long.

My gaze cuts toward Cardan. I walk over to him, squat down, and begin to prize off his royal ring. He tries to pull his hand out og my grasp, but hes tied in such a way that he cant. I yank it off his finger. I hate how i feel around him, the irrational panic when i touch his skin. page 262

Cardan grabs my face, fingers splayed against my neck. His breath is against my cheek. His other hand grabs my hair, winding it into a rope. --- "Get down on your knees," Cardan says, looking insufferably pleased with himself. His fury has transmuted into gloating. "Beg. Make it petty. Flowery. Worthy of me.

We are all capable of great self-deception when it serves us.

Madoc seemed like the sort to roast him over a fire, consume his flesh, and call it love. By then, I had become familiar with love of that kind.

You've manipulated the High King of Faerie into obeying you, but you can't find a way to manipulate one jerk into keeping our sister happy?

One doesn't have to lie to deceive.

Jasper," said Call. "Tell me something, and please answer honestly." Jasper nodded. "Is this the Assembly's new strategy for torturing me until I give them information?

my pretty face" … "such flattery. I cheated you out of a crown, so I guess I can allow for some hard feelings. Especially when they come with a compliment. Just don't try me again

I know what you did," he drawled, voice low, not at all sounding like he was asking a question. "Wicked girl. Yet you let your sister take the brunt of my ire. That wasn't very nice, was it?

Jude Duarte, you will leave the High King's side,' Balekin says. At that tone, Cardan's focus narrows. I can see him straining to concentrate. 'She will not,' he says.

She waited. Sometimes silence kept people talking. Sometimes if they talked enough, they wouldn't notice when you didn't.

I hate seeing him with Nicasia. I hate the thought of his touching her. I hate that this is my plan, that I have no one to be angry with but myself. I am an idiot. Page 173

But how did she make you agree?" I demand. "She has no power. She could pretend to be me, but she couldn't force you—" He puts his head in his long-fingered hands. "She didn't have to command me, Jude. She didn't have to use any magic. I trust you. I trusted you.

But how did she make you agree?' I demand. 'She had no power. She could pretend to be me, but she couldn't force you-' He puts his head in his long-fingered hands. 'She didn't have to command me, Jude. She didn't have to use any magic. I trust you. I trusted you.' And I trusted Taryn.

He thinks of Elienad, lying beneath tables, listening to the inflections of lies. Watching the hesitations, the gestures, the tensed muscles. Learning a language the king was unaware he even spoke.