Junot Diaz Quotes

Most fatal, most hateful of all things is bullying.... Sensual bullying of course is fairly easily detected. What is more dangerous is ideal bullying. Bullying people into what is ideally good for them.

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

Manipulating people, that's what I'm good at

Take a good look around and you'll find people trying to mess with your mind.

If I get ‘em by the short and curlies, the hearts and minds will follow.

I'm not trying to twist people's heads around. I'm not trying to say, "Believe in me."

My father has a way of persuading people without charm that has always confused me. He states his opinions as if they’re facts, and somehow his complete lack of doubt makes you believe him. That quality frightens me now, because I know what he told me: that I was broken, that I was worthless, that I was nothing. How many of those things did he make me believe?

It's easier to scare someone than to persuade him.

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.

I can't manipulate anybody's minds.

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.

I can't control everybody's mind.

I'm very good at manipulation.

That's really the nature of how cults get you - by starting slow, promising to help you realize your goals.

Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you," I say. "Controlling you is.

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

I don't need handcuffs to enslave a woman.

One of the things that I was interested in about Moriarty was - he's so manipulative that he doesn't need to commit violence himself or kill people - he can get everyone to do what he needs to do. And sometimes they don't even know that they are being manipulated by him.

It's not enough to bash in heads. You've got to bash in minds.

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

Influencing people is dangerous. Their acts and thoughts become your illegitimate children. You can't get away from them and Heaven knows what they mayn't grow up into.

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.

They made us participate in their own madness, because we couldn't help but retrace their steps, rethink their thoughts, and see that none of them led to us.

Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers; deception, when it works, is the most elegant and the least expensive manipulation of all.

Unbelievable," I said. "First you wanted to hide her away to keep you alive. Now you actually want her out in the world to use her compulsion for your own psycho plans.