Quotes About Power

You ought not to be here tonight, little ant,' he says, letting go of me. 'Go back to the palace.

by you, i am forever undone" -cardan greenbriar

By you, I am forever undone -Cardan Greenbriar

Watching his fear ripen fills me with an almost voluptuous satisfaction. I, who have had little power in my life, must be on guard against that feeling. Power goes to my head too quickly, like faerie wine.

Cuando hay mucho poder concentrado en un mismo sitio, hay un montón de sobras por las que pelearse.

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

You want me to free him? Let's gut him like haddock. Quicker and far more satisfying.

I'm the kind of vampire that you'd be, one who's new at this and basically out of control. I've already killed someone and I can't guarantee I'm not going to do it again. I'm the one who infected this girl.

After seeing what Balekin is like, I want Dain on the throne more than ever.

HIs words stood as a reminder, though, that no matter how soft he seemed or how young, he was as capable of cruelty as the rest.

By you, I am forever undone -Cardan

He is a gravitational force, pulling everything toward him.

If you hurt me, I wouldn't cry. I would hurt you back." ? Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

Marry me,' he says. 'Become the Queen of Elfhame.

He sent me to kill you" I whisper against his ear. A shiver goes through his body, and his hand goes to my waist, but instead of pushing me away, he pulls me into the bed with him, rolling my body across him onto the heavily embroidered coverlets.

Why was I cruel to Folk? Why was I awful to you? Because I could be. Because I liked it. Because, for a moment, when I was at my worst, I felt powerful, and most of the time, I felt powerless, despite being a prince and the son of the High King of Faerie.

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

Instead of being afraid, I could become something to fear.

Kill him before he makes you love him.

Fiction---good fiction, anyway---is dream made flesh, given purpose and drive, and set on a quest to show us the best in us and to give us the power and the tools to dream beyond reality's 'merely good enough' to a vision of what is truly great... ...and then to give us the stories of men and women of character who in turn inspire those of us who dare to reach for the truly great within ourselves. THAT is why you write fiction.

Each of us carries a sleeping tiger inside, and we can't predict when that cat will wake, stretch, and sharpen its claws.

There are no compacts between lions and men, and wolves and lambs have no concord.

Ocean, who is the source of all.

Prayers are the daughters of mighty Zeus, lame and wrinkled and slanting-eyed.