to. I will trick you and deceive you, lie, cheat and steal to find you, tempt you out of your hiding place, and chase you until you have nowhere else to run. I make you this promise: your life is mine

If you want to rebel, rebel from inside the system.That's much more powerful than rebelling outside the system.

For a small moment, I fix my eyes on his, telling him silently everything that I'll never say to him aloud.

I could be compassionate, if I wanted. Metias would be merciful. But I was never as good a person as my brother.

Now you'll get to see how I can really run a building, darlin. Not even a cracked knee to hold me back, yeah? What a nice birthday present.

Absolute power is absolute power, no matter what it's called.

I always knew, on some level, that I wouldn't live long. It's simply not written in my stars.