Kim Harrison Quotes

Hate and love are essentially the same in that the person who loves is as easily manipulated as a person who hates

Every Government has certain moral and physical qualities engrafted in their very nature,-one operates on the sentiments of men, the other on their fears

Hearts and Minds

The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

Romance takes place when you first fall in love. It stirs all emotions and you can manipulate and be manipulated.

Affection, mistress of passion, sways it to the mood of what it likes or loathes.

Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals for the most part governed by the impulse of passion. This is a truth well understood by our adversaries who have practised upon it with no small benefit to their cause. For at the very moment they are eulogizing the reason of men & professing to appeal only to that faculty, they are courting the strongest & most active passion of the human heart - VANITY!

Stalkers lips curled into a sneer. "You won't make a move without him, huh? That's embarrassing." "No," I said softly. "It just hurts because you wish it was you.

And I mean to hear ye groan like that again. And to moan and sob, even though you dinna wish to, for ye canna help it. I mean to make you sigh as though your heart would break, and scream with the wanting, and at last to cry out in my arms, and I shall know that I've served ye well.

Tris," he says. "What did they do to you? You're acting like a lunatic." "That's not very nice of you to say," I say. "They put me in a good mood, that's all. And now I really want to kiss you, so if you could just relax-

Fear is a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life.

There was a time when you would have taken my heart with stake or gun. Now you have taken it with these delicate hands and the scent of your body." - Jean-Claude

I think there are two ways in which people are controlled - first of all frighten people and secondly demoralize them.

Alexia gave in to his demanding touch, but only, of course, because he sounded so pathetic. It had nothing, whatsoever to do with her own quickening heartbeat.

If you're injecting fear into other people, then you're trying to kill their minds. You're trying to get them to stop thinking.

A single smile from her could make his entire being burn. One touch from her hand and he was undone. It was terrifying to think of how much power this one person had over him. How one single gesture from her could affect him so profoundly. (Sin thinking about Kat)

But that's the problem with love - it acts on you, works through you, resists your attempts to control.

Passion often makes a fool of the cleverest man and often makes the most foolish men clever

He had the uncanny capacity to know exactly what your weak point is, know what will make you feel small, to make you cringe," Joanna Hoffman said. "It's a common trait in people who are charismatic and know how to manipulate people. Knowing that he can crush you makes you feel weakened and eager for his approval, so then he can elevate you and put you on a pedestal and own you.

Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular; but reason remains ever the property of an elect few.

The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue.

How easy it is for the proper-false in woman's waxen hearts to set their forms!

Is the devil to have all the passions as well as all the good tunes?

I accused a woman of doing something behind my back when I knew that she hadn't, just to see if she loved me. One of a man's secret weapons in dealing with women is knowing the day you stop reacting to my bullshit is the day I feel like I've lost you, even if I'm creating a problem just so we can argue about it.

It is more difficult for a man to be faithful to his mistress when he is favored than when he is ill treated by her.