Quotes About Influence

I wonder what it's like to have that much power over a boy. I don't think I'd want it; it's a lot of responsibility to hold a person's heart in your hands.

Peter's mom told me he was talking about transferring to UNC next year. She wanted me to break up with him before he messed up his life for me." "Damn! Peter's mom is kind of a bitch!" "She didn't use those exact words, but that was the gist of it.

For a second or two I considered taking Clay's beer. It would be my first. But then I'd only be doing it to spite Conrad, and I wasn't going to let him control what I did.

If not for you, I would not have written this book. Truly, this one is for you.

she still thinks she owns his ass.

It's funny how much of childhood is about proximity. Like who your best friend is is directly correlated to how close your houses are; who you sit next to in music is all about how close your names are in the alphabet. Such a game of chance.

Right off the bat, the boys were a unit. Conrad was the leader. His word was pretty much law. Steven was his second in command, and Jeremiah was the jester.

Margot is a good girl, and I guess Kitty and I have followed her lead. I've never cheated or gotten drunk or smoked a cigarette or even had a boyfriend.

I never even thought about you before. Gen has always said that you are the best-looking boy in our grade, and I agreed, because sure, you are. But I still didn't see the allure of you. Plenty of people are good-looking. That doesn't make them interesting or intriguing or cool. Maybe that's why you kissed me. To do mind control on me, to make me see you that way. It worked. Your little trick worked. From then on, I saw you. Up close, your face wasn't so much handsome as beautiful.

Is there anything more intoxicating than making a boy bend to your will?

Before Elaine, Sherilyn was my closest girl friend. I still like Sherilyn, but after so many years of knowing each other, the little things started to pile up and bug me. She cares way too much about what Mairi and Hadley think. It's embarrassing. Even when we were little, she was rushing to impress them, rushing to anything them, and she just never measured

I was thinking about her too. Even when she's not here, she's here. That girl has some kind of reach.

Conrad had a way of looking at me, at you, at anybody, that made everything unravel and want to fall at his feet.

For someone who's over Genevieve, he sure does talk about her a lot. Though it's not just him. I was thinking about her too. Even when she's not here, she's here. That girl has some kind of reach.

Like always, it was Conrad who dictated the mood of the house, how everyone else felt.

I wonder what it's like to have that much power over a boy. It's a lot of responsability to hold a person's heart in you hands.

An elite is inevitable.

When you feel something big and know something bigger, you share it with the world. (Anna K)

Even in sleep, the wizard had an iron grip.

He was Pinocchio to my Gepetto.

If I had to sum up what he did to me, I'd say it was this: he made me sing along to all the bad songs on the radio. Both when he loved me and when he didn't.

So Niels grows up, and all the influences of his childhood work on the plastic clay. Everything helps to shape it; everything is significant, the real and the dreamed, what is known and what is foreshadowed— all add their touch, lightly but surely, to that tracery of lines which is destined to be first hollowed out and deepened and afterwards flattened out and smoothed away.

The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.

The turn of a sentence has decided the fate of many a friendship, and, for aught that we know, the fate of many a kingdom.