Kresley Cole Quotes

With women, I've got a long bamboo pole with a leather loop on the end. I slip the loop around their necks so they can't get away or come too close. Like catching snakes.

I was kind of a bully, even though I'm tiny, 5' 2". As a child, I'd boss other kids around and dress my little brother up, just putting on shows, singing and dressing up.

All at once it hit him: this was power too, just as surely as smashing your fist into someone’s face, just as surely as putting a hammer through someone’s skull. The power to make another person crazy with pleasure instead of fear and pain, to have every cell in another person’s body at your thrall.

None of you understand. I'm not locked up in here with YOU. You're locked up in here with ME.

I own your pleasure," I whispered into his mouth. "I'll take it if you won't give it to me.

Servitude seizes on few, but many seize on her.

Information is control.

Content is an obstacle to the exercise of power.

To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power.

Now I want you to listen to me," he said in a low voice, taking her chin in his hand and forcing her to look at him. "And listen carefully, because I'm only going to say this once. You are going to marry me before this week is out. Since you have conveniently run off to Scotland, we don't need a special license. You're just lucky I don't haul you off to a church right this instant. Get yourself a dress and get yourself some flowers, because, sweeetheart, you're getting yourself a new name.

The lust that drives others to enslave an empire, had become, in her limits, a passion for power over him. She had set out to break him, as if, unable to equal his value, she could surpass it by destroying it, as if the measure of his greatness would thus become the measure of hers, as if the vandal who smashed a statue were greater than the artist who had made it, as if the murderer who killed a child were greater than the mother who had given it birth.

The hand that controls the supper dish rules the world!

If you get deep enough, you get trapped. Stop calling yourself a user. You are being used.

The wielders of power did not speak for it, nor did they naturally serve it. Their interest was to use and develop power, no less natural and necessary than liberty but more dangerous.

Whenever domination is present, love is lacking.

I control the conditions so my testers become my testees.

Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you

What I wanted most of all was to use sex as a weapon to allure, subjugate, and, if possible, destroy the personality of others.

I never promise a woman anything nor let her know what I'm going to give her. That's the only way to manage them. Always keep them guessing. If you cant think of any other way to surprise them, give them a bust in the jaw.

A portion of the multitude must ever be coerced.

It is always from the depths of its impotence that each power center draws its power, hence their extreme maliciousness, and vanity

For the power of Man to make himself what he pleases means... the power of some men to make other men what THEY please.

The object of power is power.

When you seek to dominate another you dominate no one but disempower yourself.

Maybe I’ll keep you.” Abbot chuckled and prodded Artemis’s back with his sword. “It’d be nice to have a pet human around. I could teach you tricks.” “I have a trick for you,” said Artemis, and he fired a single blast from the gun.