Quotes About Power

I was with the boy that monsters should fear.

What good is it to be rich if we canna scrape up the scratch to buy a political prisoner on a whim?

Very well. What do you do as a mercenary?" "I specialize in usurping thrones. They call me the kingmaker." Bragging now?

How do you plan to keep me here during the day? An unblooded Forbearer shouldn't be so hard to vanquish." Vanquished by her? Amusing. "I'll send you back to the cell. You want to be my pet? I'll take you out and put you back in your cage at my pleasure." She blinked at him. "You don't want to send me back. Who will entertain you? I can deal poker and make shadow animals.

The first rule of being a mercenary? Find out what the client wants, then convince him that, a) you can get it for him, and, b) you're the ONLY one who can get it for him. Second rule? Lie. Often. The truth rarely serves you well in this business -Cadeon Woede, mercenary, second in line to the throne of the rage demons, a.k.a. Cade the Kingmaker

The greatest thing about having power is the mere having of power. Use the latter well, and you'll never have to use the former. Morgana, Queen of the Sorceri

You think I should use magick like mine to open a tomb? Mari asked in a scoffing tone. Mistress of bluffing, working it here. That'd be like calling you in to lift a feather.

You promised to make me pay!' 'I intend to, Empress, but not in the way you're thinking.' His accented words were loaded with innuendo.

Nix: I'm actively involved in steering the lives of thousands of beings. Which directly affects hundreds of thousands, which indirectly affects millions, with a ripple effect reaching billions. If someone said, 'It ain't easy being Nïxie,' I wouldn't cal him a liar.

The Empress doesn't get collared, or caged, or tortured. How artfully she beckons, how perfectly she punishes....

The mind was capable of unimaginable feats if one were strong enough to believe them possible.

Horses have powerful legs- but that doesn't mean they're prima ballerinas. Elianna to Mariketa.

I know exactly what you are now. I know what you will be - Lothaire

Or she could command him to repeatedly stab himself in the dick. Then she'd run away as fast as she could manage—seeing as she would be laughing really hard.

It's not if you castrate an entire Roman legion, it's if they believe you did. Perception is everything.

Remember my titles? I don't get poisoned,I do the poisoning.I'm the princess of it.

That sorceress might be an evil, but she is my evil bitch. And I'll have no other

I will rise from the ashes of the old ways to become Phenïx, the goddess of . . . accessions.

She needed to scream two little words. But Jo didn't surrender; she Hulk-smashed. She squeezed until things broke.

You know that I'm not for sale, right?" "I know. Or I would have already bought you." I grinned, thinking he was kidding, but he just stared into my eyes. Too intense! So I tried a playful turn. "And what would you do if you owned me?" I tweaked his strong chin. "Would I be your slave?" He shook his head. "I would free you, Victoria. And then I would buy you the entire goddamned world.

When two people form an unbreakable bond, it's like a reactor, feeding them power and heat and a sense of belonging. It makes them strong. They're the true superheroes.

Despite everything, I felt my lips twitch. If he weren't a homicidal god-wannabe, and I didn't have a murderous red witch inside me, we might've been friends. When his laughter died down, he said, "Back in the day, we would've made a great reality TV show. The Sol and Empress Show." "The

It made you happy, to be used by me?" Perhaps not so promising. I raised my brows with amusement. "I orgasmed three times; you did once. Who's using whom, Siberian?

It wasn't even fair. Which was okay, since Sorceri only cared about fair play when it benefited them. Otherwise, they were not fans.