Quotes About Influence

Where I bleed, he bleeds. As he wounded me, he wounded himself.

Whatever my opinion of her, she is very knowledgeable and powerful, and an excellent teacher. I was not prepared to let my prejudices affect your training.

Daniel had passed the point where he could tell himself to drop Owen Winter's friendship. He'd tried it in the past, but Owen only had to appear again and Daniel would be powerless.

He had mocked her, shown her his power, and she, believing herself immune, had fallen beneath his spell.

Any priest could make a god for you, on a scrap of parchment with some spit and a smudge of black ink. He would name it for you and then it might act in your favor. If you ate the god, or rather the parchment bearing his name, you might have visions or be able smite an enemy with a thought. You could also banish demons who had procured temporary lodgings in your body.

To rid the world of one empire merely made room for another.

There is nothing of yours I have not possessed. Soon, I shall even possess your body as I have taken those whom you love. You have no power to resist me.

All still obeyed the words of Emilia Manden. At one time she had held the whip for the Murkasters in Little Moor.

A man who turned away from women could not, in Meggie's eyes, have magical power, yet Daniel clearly did.

It's like having a demon in a bottle. It's power, Jordan but, like a demon, unpredictable.

It was not desirable to explain things to Louis. Like Barbara, he was merely a tool, and in Othman's consideration, deserved no explanation.

He's scorched us, Ninka. We are just memories of his power.

It's quite common, Shem. The younger a psychic is, the stronger their ability. Perhaps you need a new vizier now, another young boy, or girl, who's starry-eyed and easy to manipulate." "I won't listen to this!" Shem snapped. "Just get on with it! I only have one vizier, and that's you. I don't believe you mean what you say. You can't have changed that much.

I am like a serpent, Tayven thought. I can hypnotize people. Almorante had told him this long ago, and had taught him to make the most of his talent.

Ah, Khaster, do you not see? It is up to you entirely how you react to this. That is your control over the outcome.

In Vangery, Dannel had been a great matriarch of one of the most influential families on the marsh. Now she felt like a coddled grandmother, even though she was not that old nor had grand-children.

A quivering sensation of power, of flame. Othman sucked the impression into his brain, savoured it. Daniel must not pick this up. Not yet. It was simple to exude a blocking stream, which, invisibly, wrapped as a caul around Daniel's senses. He was so young, so untrained. He could not fight it. Under Othman's influence, he abandoned the spirtual aspects of what he was doing and gave himself to lust.

Being a friend to me might set you on a path you'll regret.

Fire came from the south. Fire led by its king, Casilin Malagash.

At one time, a sacred flame burned in this place, and its influence still prevails. You have walked through its memory and it has changed you.

It's an intrusion, isn't it, that presence in your head. Continual mental rape.

The woman was supposed to dance to his tune, and he was in no mood for music at the moment.

We are agents who alter the unfolding of the universe.

I didn't really get into golf until I was about 14. My mom and dad were taking lessons from a pro an hour and a half from our farm in Cohuna, Australia. When they got home, I'd ask my mom to explain everything they learned - drills and all.