Lisa Kleypas Quotes

It was a nice bit of blackmail that kept him off my back, but he refused to take the message that I wasn’t going to work for him. ’Course, that might be my fault…since I seemed unable to say no when he waved enough money at me.

I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion.

The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it.

If there's one thing I can't stand, it's somebody doing something because I pushed them in that direction.

Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.

If you were to come to Minnesota, I could have you locked up like that. That's power.

Obviously, a power player in a criminal organization doesn't have to persuade anyone. He can just do what he wants.

Government by blackmail is incompatible with democracy.

I don't believe in strong-arming people.

Part of my job is to try and seduce people. It's what I get paid for, and if people get in the way of me doing my job I can be very difficult.

When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat.

Power intoxicates men. It is never voluntarily surrendered. It must be taken from them.

I'm really not good blackmail material.

Intimidation doesn't last very long.

You can't do anything if a person says no. In such a case, there's nothing you can do - unlike the popular cliche that pressure is exerted, or that maybe an unwilling source is done away with.

The difference between rape and seduction is salesmanship.

Coercion is the basis of every law in the universe.

You can only beat a guy down so far before he has a tendency to start listening to what you're saying.

You can't try to keep someone against their will, or it's difficult to get them to listen or have the right mentality.

I don't think anyone likes to be pushed around.

If you tell me, I will leave you alone," I said. "And if you don't tell me, I am going to grab the nearest ghostwritten James Patterson romance novel and I am going to follow you through this store reading it out loud until you relent. Would you prefer me to read from Daphne's Three Tender Months with Harold or Cindy and John's House of Everlasting Love? I guarantee, your sanity and your indie street cred won't last a chapter. And they are very, very short chapters." Now I could see the fright beneath the defiance.

She make me beg for it until she give it up

Blackmail is more effective than bribery.

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.

I've never had a good line. Well, maybe 'I must break you'.