Quotes About Power

I am kind of in control and out of control at the same time.

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

You are a coin to be spent, and he is a royal, used to throwing around gold.

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.

The Bomb gives me a quick grin.

We're not mortal. We will break you. You're a fragile little thing; we'd hardly need to try. Give up." "Never," I say. He smiles, smug. "Never? Never is like forever - too big for mortals to comprehend.

Get down on your knees, Cardan says, looking insufferably pleased with himself. His fury transmuted into gloating. "Beg. Make it pretty. Flowery. Worthy of me.

Jude, he'd said, running a hand up my calf, are you afraid of me?

Lying on his bed feels like wiping my dirty peasant feet on the throne.

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

They are beautiful and terrible, and they might despise my mortality, might mock it, but I am up here and they are not.

First I am going to kill you,' she tells him. 'And then I am going to eat you.

High King Cardan smiles down the table indulgently and yawns like a cat. His hair is messy, as though he did no more than finger-comb it since rising from my bed. Our eyes meet, and I am the one who looks away, my face hot. Kiss me until I am sick of it.

I just need to be able to vanquish my enemies. That's all.

For a moment, a desire for vengeance rises in me. Once, she laughed at my humiliation. Now I could gloat before hers. This is what power feels like, pure unfettered power. It's great.

I should never have asked you to come back here.' 'Just don't leave me behind,' I say, feeling immensely vulnerable. 'That's what I want, for the game I won all those years ago.' 'I promise you,' he says. 'If it is within my power, we leave together.' I nod. 'We will find the reliquary and ruin her,' I tell him. 'And then I will never come back.

I watch every blow, every flinch. I have little choice. I can shut my eyes, but the sounds are just as terrible. And worst of all is Cardan's empty face, his eyes as dull as lead. Truly, he has come by his cruelty honestly in Balekin's care. He has been raised up in it, instructed in its nuances, honed through it's application. However horrible Cardan might be, I now see what he might become and am truly afraid.

Queen Annet sits on a throne covered in powdery white moths, each one fluttering its wings a little, giving the whole thing the effect of a moving carpet.

It's ridiculous the way everyone acts like killing a king is going to make someone better at being one,' Vivi says. 'Imagine if, in the mortal world, a lawyer passed the bar by killing another lawyer.

No matter how hard she swung at him, it just made him laugh. He liked her anger. Fire, he called it. She liked it when she was angry, too. Angry was better than scared.

Hate that was so bright and hot that it was the first thing that truly warmed him. Hate that felt so good that he welcomed being consumed by it. Not a heart of stone, but a heart of fire.

I want to strike Cardan over and over until I slap that smugness off his face. But if I did, he'd know just how much he scares me.

He rises from the throne. "Come, have a seat." His voice is replete with danger, lush with menace. The flowering branches have sprouted thorns so thickly that petals are barely visible. "This is what you wanted, isn't it?" he asks. "What you sacrificed everything for. Go on. It's all yours.

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