Quotes About Power

He loved to fuck,needed the release to keep his muscles content,and though he didn't allow anyone to touch him,undress him,or speak to him,he made sure that the females who spread their legs and bent over the polished black surface of his Bösendorfer came in ways,durations,and decibel levels they'd never known existed.

He loved to fuck,needed the release to keep his muscles content,abd rhough he didn't allow anyone to touch him,undress him,or speak to him,he made sure that the females who spread their legs and bent over the polished black surface of his Bösendorfer came in ways,durations,and decibel levels they'd never known existed.

Maybe my behavior is less about what I'm hiding and more about wanting to keep things hidden. Secrecy feels like power. And safety.

Most people are afraid of knives. If you show yourself willing to carve someone up, they tend to be afraid of you.

Maybe they know what I know, that the true way to a man's heart is six inches of metal between his ribs. Sometimes four inches will do the job, but to be really sure, I like to have six. Funny how phallic objects are always more useful the bigger they are. Anyone who tells you size doesn't matter has been seeing too many small knives.

What did they think I was going to do, steal a body? If I wanted to, I could empty the damn place and get every corpse to play follow the leader. Perhaps that was why I needed watching. Perhaps. --Anita Blake

A girl could never have too much jewelry or too much weaponry.

I would rather you love me, but if not love, fear will do.

The rich and powerful always seem to prefer the tops of buildings. Hasn't anyone ever explained to them that higher just means you have farther to fall? -- Anita Blake

I try to be a good cop. I try to be a good little soldier and follow orders up to a point. But in the end I'm not really a cop, or a soldier. I am a legally sanctioned murderer. I am the Executioner.

Important safety tip with most of the spiritual world: if you ignore it, it has less power. This does not work with demons or other demi-beings. Other exceptions to the rule are vampires, zombies, ghouls, lycanthropes, witches...Oh, hell, ignoring only works for ghosts.

When you dance with the devil, it might as well be a devil who can give you your own corner of hell to rule.

An atheist waving a cross at a vampire was a truly pitiful sight.

Neal stood, kicking free of the clinging curtain. I'll kill you. I drew the firestar and pointed it at him. I don't think so. She is pack now, Sylvie said. You fight one of us, and you fight all of us. Edward raised his eyebrows at me. What is going on, Anita? I think I've been adopted, I said.

And the moment you care that much, a man has you. He owns a little piece of your soul, and he can beat you to death with it.

Who hit you? Why, so you can go beat him up? One of the fringe benefits of being my human servant is my protection. I don't need your protection, Jean-Claude. He hurt you. And I shoved a gun into his groin and made him tell me everything he knew, I said.

Sometimes you deal with the devil not because you want to, but because if you don't, someone else will.

Sometimes the monsters are real, Anita. Sometimes they're real and the only way to defeat them is to be the bigger monster.' - Chang Bibi to Anita

I know who and what I am. I am the Executioner, and I don't date vampires. I kill them.

I am the Executioner. Murder someone in my town, and I'm the one that you get to see. Once.

More than life, more than honor, I love thee. More than any crown or throne or title, I love thee. More than any power in faerie, I love thee.

Just what I needed—a necromancer with an attitude. Oh, wait, I was a necromancer with an attitude.

Give a truly good person power, and they're still a good person. Give a bad person power, and they're still a bad person. The question is always about the person in between. The one that isn't evil, or good, but just ordinary. You don't always know what an ordinary person is like on the inside.

What was I supposed to say?.....did I tell them the Master had the hots for me, so I'd probably be okay? -Anita