Quotes About Influence

You want to know what I did to make him raise me up?' I ask, leaning toward her, close enough that she can feel the warmth of my breath. 'I kissed him on the mouth, and then I threatened to kiss him some more if he didn't do exactly what I wanted.' 'Liar,' she hisses. 'If you're such good friends,' I say, repeating her own words back to her with malicious satisfaction, 'why don't you ask him?

He's flint, you're tinder.

I can show you a version of yourself, Taryn. One you've never imagined. It's terrible to be a girl trapped in a story. But you can be more than that. You can be the teller. You can shape the story. You can make all of Faerie love you.

He made me into a story, and now I am going to make a story out of someone else

Father, I am what you made me. I've become your daughter after all.

Power is infectious. Power is greedy.

He's supposed to look regal. I helped choose the clothes, helped make him this way, and yet the effect is not lost on me.

It doesn't feel good exactly, to be in danger, but it does feel good to be the cause of events rather than being swept along into them.

You like it, don't you? Playing games with us? Pulling our strings and seeing how we dance?

What has changed? Is he different because I have forced him to be? Is it because he is away from Balekin? Or is he no different at all and I am only seeing what I want to see?

He pushes himself to standing and offers me his arm. 'Come, let us charm and confound our subjects.

If he could not get the High King's attention for something good, then perhaps he could get it for something really, really bad.

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

Poder. El poder es la capacidad para conseguir lo que quieres. Es la capacidad para convertirse en el que toma las decisiones. ¿Y como se consigue ese poder? El poder se consigue por la fuerza.

True power isn't granted. True power can't be taken away.

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Fear is not love, but it can appear much the same. So too, power.

He made me into a story, and I am going to make a story out of someone else.

It turns out that men have more authority, even when they're not real.

He is a gravitational force, pulling everything toward him.

Power is much easier to acquire than it is to hold on to.

Father, I am what you made me. I've become your daughter after all.

in the tiny 'unhistoric acts' of goodness which she performs within her limited circle a ripple of influence has been set in motion which may eventually lap the edge of the world.

and I learned more at the hands of Carl Wilson than I learned from anybody else. He taught me a fuck of a lot of guitar playing. That man is a good guitar player.