Quotes About Restraint

Henry likes to utter his sin and be forgiven. He is sincerely sorry, he will not do it again. And in this case, perhaps he will not. The temptation to cut off your wife's head does not arise every year.

They always say, we'll just do another year. It's called the golden handcuffs.

He has never told anyone this story. He doesn't mind talking to Richard, to Rafe about his past--within reason--but he doesn't mean to give away pieces of himself.

It would have been quite in order to slap his face, but what a cliché, she thought, and besides she was off balance. She had always wanted to do it to someone, but would have preferred someone more robust; so, between one thing and another, the moment passed.

Christophe says, 'You are not sad, sir?' 'No. I am not sad. I am not allowed to be. I am too useful to be sad.

Well, I think, by definition, all power has limits.

He readied himself for an outburst of anger that never happened. So he became angry for her and tried not to show it in her presence.

Even nectar is poison if taken to excess.

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

Don't shoot," I said. "We can always kill some of them whenever we want to. Let's let them live a little longer.

Desire is that animal that remains fit only through undernourishment.

My silence made her say things she didn't need to say..

Is the heart always failing itself or by nature unfaithful? I had to restrain myself from writing to her too often, especially because she rarely wrote back or responded with the speed and in the manner I had allowed myself to expect. Some people manage to escape the obligation a sincere letter places on them.

Remember that I'm still a monster. I can listen to you scream and cry and beg and I still won't let you out.

I'm going to take off your gag. And if you try to bite me or grab me or anything, I'll hit you with this thing as hard as I can as many times as I can. Understood?

Nevermore," Lolli said. "That's what Luis calls it, because there are three rules: Never more than once a day, never more than a pinch at a time, and never more than two days in a row.

What she did know was that normal was a lot more tempting when it was out of reach.

I don't mind being one-handed,but if you're going to restrain both of my hands , then you'll have to pour wine directly into my mouth

Believe what you can handle believing

There are many things I don't know, but I know a great deal about imprisonment.

Jude here made me her prisoner," he says, and I have to fight down the urge to step heavily on his foot. "She ties very tight knots.

There was something in the set of his jaw that made her think of how she'd described him to Adeline, as a lake that was still on the surface, with a whole drowned town inside.

There it is. That temper you try to hide. You know what fascinates me about you? You're a hungry person sitting in front of a banquet, refusing to eat.

I don't mind being one-handed,' Cardan interjects. 'But if you're going to restrain both of my hands, then you'll have to pour the wine directly in to my mouth.