Power Quotes

"A man's home is his fortress."

"We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print."

"The key to my new life is not in my hands."

"Don't make them unhappy, she says. It's the only power we have."

"Kings is a considerable sight to look at"

"I am the law and the law is me."

"She doesn't know I've written this. She thinks I'm asleep. I'm not asleep."

"Let her write, scribble, scratch the walls in frustration."

"There are things I can do that you can't do, Jane."

"He is still in all his splendor, still in all his power, and still able to destroy me."

"Modesty is invisibility"

"We are two-legged wombs, that's all"

"The pen is envy"

"He was a man undone by his own desires."

"The judge smiled. He made a small gesture with his cigar. The flesh was better than the stone."

"The period of greatest danger has passed."

"This is not a regime that does things halfway."

"Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent."

"Whatever his antecedents he would always come before them."

"He discovered that his greatest weakness was an excess of strength."

"He discovered that passion destroys as surely as hatred."

"A man has only to sneeze, and his wife jumps."

"A wife who doesn't obey deserves to be punished."

"The words had a power and weight to them."

"Words like Liesel were power."

"Everything that exists without my knowledge exists without my consent."

"I kill with these words."

"She understood finally that words could destroy and create."

"Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent."

"I have found power in the telling of truth"