Holly Black Quotes

I won’t snatch, harm, or scare to death people with you or use checking up on you as an excuse to cause trouble. You’re worse than my mother, Rachel.” “Mine, too,” Jenks muttered.

...counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.

It was very exciting for her, taking his dignity away in the name of love.

Immodest creature, you do not want a woman who will accept your faults, you want the one who pretends you are faultless - one who will caress the hand that strikes her and kiss the lips that lie to her.

The classic problem in a relationship is a person trying to control the other person. People just want to conquer somebody.

A little tip for you, Winged Wonder. Don't threaten the woman you want to seduce." See Annabelle take control. He reached out, gently brushed his fingertip along her collarbone. "If it means saving your life, I'll do more than threaten you. I'll follow through. Best you realize that now, rather than cry foul later.

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.

I succeeded in using my charms like a weapon; I learned to play with other's hearts and to master my own desires.

I'm told I'm very charming when people do what I want.

He was making her feel small and absurdly petulant and, worse yet, she suspected he was right. She always suspected he was right. For a brief irrational moment, she wished she could walk away from him. Then she wished, more rationally, that she could love him without needing him. Need gave him power without his trying; need was the choicelessness she often felt around him.

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

I want you," he muttered. "Get rid of him and take me. The only risk is losing someone you don't have anyway. He's not what you need, Ella. I am" "Unbelievable," I said in disgust. "What's unbelievable?" "Your ego. It's surrounded by its own cloud of antimatter. You're a black hole of...of hubris!

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

If you keep it," Daneca says, "he'll have his claws in you." Everyone has their claws in me. Everyone.

He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. It's about power with Voldemort. It's an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive.

Those who love to be feared fear to be loved.

In 'Fifty Shades,' seemingly, Christian has all the power and control - but actually, Anastasia does.

Toxic people defy logic. Some are blissfully unaware of the negative impact that they have on those around them, and others seem to derive satisfaction from creating chaos and pushing other people's buttons.

People that were in my life for a long time turned sinister and tried to control me, and all kinds of weird stuff happened. But there was no conscience involved; that threw me more than anything.

In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms.

Everybody, to some extent, manipulates. Even children learn to cry when they want something. There are all kinds of subtle things we do to get others to follow our lead, not bother us, and so on.

Lisa Vanderpump is a manipulative person and when I was on the show I did a lot of her dirty work for her.