Quotes About Influence

All friendships are negotiations of power.

I'm afraid that whatever I touch is spoilt by the contact." "I'm not scared of being spoiled," Val said.

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.

Call wasn't sure what it meant that he'd gone full Evil Overlord on Jasper but still couldn't manage to impress him.

I think you impressed him with the sheer force of your stupidity.

What is a king without a crown? That's a riddle, but one to which we all know the answer: no king at all.

Cassel, she said, you want to know how to be the most charming guy anyone's ever met? Remind them of their favorite person. Everyone's favorite person is their own damn self.

She had a way of making everyone around her feel as though every impossible thing was possible.

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?

They see themselves in you and are blinded.

It was readers that needed to be protected, he thought. Books were something that happened to readers. Readers were the victims of books.

I made you believe that you were what I wanted you to become.

El verdadero poder no se concede, y tampoco se puede arrebatar

El poder es infeccioso. El poder es insaciable.

I have often wondered if my past is the reason I am the way I am, if it has made me monstrous. If so, will I make a monster out of him"?

El poder es mucho más fácil de adquirir que de conservar.

Power,' he said. 'Power is the ability to get what you want. Power is the ability to be the one making the decisions.

But for one final night, he's the father I remember best, the one in whose shadow I have -- for better or for worse -- become who I am.

People remember the Enemy of Death," said Alma. "But they forget the man who made him who he was.

But for one final night, he's the father I remember best, the one in whose shadow I have- for better or worse- become what I am.

If we didn't have to take lessons alongside them, if I didn't know firsthand what a scourge they were to those who displeased them, I'd probably be as in love with them as everyone else is.

Haz uso de tu poder sin que parezca que lo tienes.

It's all yours.

I have often wondered if my past is the reason I am the way I am, if it has made me monstrous. If so, will I make a monster out of him?