Sylvia Day Quotes

I couldn't forget. I couldn't break. She had the power to break me. No one had ever been given that power, ever.

That's how disagreements always ended with Hugh Hefner; he would just stomp off, and you were left to pick the pieces of your self-worth up off the floor. I'd invested every part of myself in the mansion and had nothing waiting for me outside those gates. I felt so trapped and so vulnerable to his criticisms.

All I knew was that I would die if he sent me away. He shrugged. You can cut a man’s heart out with a shrug, did you know that?

When you say or do anything to please, get, keep, influence, or control anyone or anything, fear is the cause and pain is the result.

Are you trying to manipulate me? It's working.

A state of shock is what results when a gap opens up between events and our initial ability to explain them. When we find ourselves in that position, without a story, without our moorings, a great many people become vulnerable to authority figures telling us to fear one another and relinquish our rights for the greater good.

The fear tactic is a tactic that's used by people who want to maintain control, and it's very effective.

If you want to control someone, all you have to do is to make them feel afraid.

Anyone? On Snow's visit before the Victory Tour, he challenged me to erase any doubts of my love for Peeta. "Convince me," Snow said. It seems, under that hot pink sky with Peeta's life in limbo, I finally did. And In doing so, I gave him the weapon he needed to break me.

It's easier to control people when they're afraid.

No, I only think you cruel, as I said the other day. Maybe not intentionally cruel; but you seem to be forcing me into disclosures which can result in nothing; as if you would have me bare a wound for the pleasure of looking at it, without the intention or power of healing it.

Of course. Opal is toying with our emotions for her own gratification. Nothing more. She wishes to place herself in a position of power, emotionally.

With hardly any effort at all, she made me feel special. Just like all the other people she toyed with.

I can frighten or buy ninety-nine out of every one hundred men.

From this arises the question whether it is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather than loved. It might perhaps be answered that we should wish to be both: but since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.

... motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches.

I would rather you love me, but if not love, fear will do.

Woman is mistress of the art of completely imbittering the life of the person on whom she depends.

With many women I doubt whether there be any more effectual wayof touching their hearts than ill-using them and then confessing it. If you wish to get the sweetest fragrance from the herb at your feet, tread on it and bruise it.

If anything might hurt her, silence would; and I wanted to hurt her.

If you want to control somebody, support them. Or marry them.

The people you love are just weapons that will be used against you.

I know there are women, like my best friends, who would have gotten out of there the minute their boyfriend gave them a gun to hide. But I didn't. I got to admit the truth. It turned me on.

The story of your life is the story of the long and brutal assault on your heart by the one who knows what you could be and fears it.

They try to make you think they care about what you do but they don't. They don't want you to act a certain way. So you're easy to understand. So you won't pose a threat to them.