Quotes About Power

It's easier to be horrible if you can squash everyone who tries to stop you.

It is not wise," Beauclaire said, his voice clipped, and somewhere in the vowels Anna heard an accent not too far from Bran's when he was angered. "It is not wise to give something old and powerful something they care about. And I am very old.

Historically, war has often been used as a distraction for problems at home.

Sometime soon, I will deal with the fae who have offended me in such a way that others avoid annoying me for another century or two. That's a good plan for the next few weeks, I think. Findest du nicht auch?

But I would be a much better monster than you were. There would be no stories about my reign of terror because no one would live to tell the tale.

want to. Adam wasn't angry. He wouldn't hurt me. I let him pull the power of his pack over me like a warm

Right after Thanksgiving, that necromancer vampire challenged Marsilia—Frost

Then along came that tsunami that hit the Fukushima Daiichi plant and, well, no one is building nuclear power plants in Japan now, are they?

It's bad to have an enemy with the kinds of resources these people apparently have—but it is infinitely worse to have crazy people as enemies.

I told them,' he said in a clear, carrying voice, 'that they should not give someone as old and powerful as I a daughter to love. That it would end badly.

As for other mischief—my song has claimed this place for now. No evil may enter without invitation. They cannot come in." He glanced beyond us, behind Adam and me, toward the basement. "Not for a while.

You are looking at this wrong. You think I hold my territory by the might of my fist. But that's not it. I hold my territory by consent of the governed. I think it is a very American concept, which might be why you never looked for it." — Adam Hauptman, Columbia Basin Pack Alpha, to Iacopo (Jacob) Bonarata, Lord of the Night (master vampire of Milan)

One by one, two by two, the Hardesty witches are traveling through. With a storm of curses, they call from their tomes; they will drink your blood and dine on your bones.

The older you are, the more you fear change, even if you think you are in charge. Especially if you think you are in charge.

She needs feeding up. Leo never could take care of the gifts he was given.' 'He wasn't given Anna,' Charles said. 'He hunted her down.' Tag's face stilled. 'He Changed an Omega by force?

About thirty years ago, the Gray Lords, the powerful mages who rule the fae, began to be concerned about advances in science—particularly forensic science.

Shut up," I said fiercely and very quietly because the sound of his voice sent sharp, arcing lightning rods of pain from my eyes all the way through my skull.

It was not a bad idea to remind your enemy of who you are.

SILVERLESS, DE-MAGICKED, AND VOWING NEVER TO PLAY word one-upmanship—or even Scrabble for that matter—with either Adam or Asil (What exactly was a quicquidlibet, anyway?)

I don't like it when I outweigh my men.

Women are the bloodthirsty sex," said Ric sadly. "We get the reputation, but it is only because the women stand behind us, and say, 'Kill it. Squish it.

Sometimes I have the urge to conquer large parts of Europe.

He was like Superman, but with fangs and oddly impaired morals.

Don't you have something more important to do?" I asked him, flipping on the light on. "Like ruling the world or something" -Mercy