The Kingmaker Quotes

#1. Very well. What do you do as a mercenary?"
"I specialize in usurping thrones. They call me the kingmaker." Bragging now?

Kresley Cole

#2. That's what it comes down to for everyone. How much use we can be.

Amanda Bouchet

#3. ... if I cannot be with my sister, then I don't want any bedfellow at all.

Philippa Gregory

#4. It's been said that everything rises and falls on leadership, and the best type of leader, is a servant leader. For me, my life as a kingmaker includes serving

Cary Hokama

#5. Until the song is sung and the musicians have all gone home, not even you can tell which notes made the melody.

Karen Miller

#6. Now that that's settled, you're coming with me."

"Never in a billion suns. Not even if Zeus showed up as a swan and tried to peck me in your direction. I wouldn't go with you even if my other option was Hades dragging me to the Underworld for an eternal threesome with Persephone.

Amanda Bouchet

#7. I conquered a kingdom and found a treasure." His voice turns gravelly, low. "I won't let you go. Not now. Not ever.

Amanda Bouchet

#8. The kingmaker. He regained both prestige and fresh mating opportunities.

Frans De Waal

#9. You're going to choose your mate, as is tradition." "I'm what?" My eyebrows shoot up. "How did you think Kingmaker's only mate with supernaturals? It's not like you would meet some nice guy online, fall in love and suddenly realize he was supernatural," the fae points out.

Lizzy Ford

#10. I want him everywhere. I burn for him in places he hasn't even touched.

Amanda Bouchet

#11. The urgent need today is to develop and support leaders on every level of government who are independent of the bossism of every political machine - the big-city machine, the liberal Democrat machine, and the Republican kingmaker machine.

Phyllis Schlafly

#12. I was on the way to becoming a duchess, and I had made the Kingmaker angry. What more could a child of seven have accomplished in one day?

Susan Higginbotham

#13. I've known all sorts of fear - fear of pain, fear of discovery, fear of capture. This is new. This is the kind of fear that teaches me the difference between trying to stay alive, and wanting to live.

Amanda Bouchet

#14. People talk about fight or flight? That's nonsense. It's fight and flight.

Amanda Bouchet

#15. I dread this power he has over me. It makes me want to tell him all my secrets and see if he still wants me.

Amanda Bouchet

#16. Unless they're utterly heartless, people put a certain value on human life. It keeps us from killing each other off for no reason. But for leaders like you and me, a moral high ground is too absolute. There are choices to be made.

Amanda Bouchet

#17. The user, not the ISP, should be the kingmaker of apps.

Marvin Ammori

#18. Happiness is a strange, frightening, fragile feeling when you're not used to it.

Amanda Bouchet

#19. Men don't understand discretion. My goal is to survive on my weakest abilities. That saves other talents for when I really need them and doesn't reveal important skills to any idiot who might be watching.

Amanda Bouchet

#20. The ice inside me melts. Suddenly, I'm burning up and terrified, scared I'll be too weak to resist.

Scratch that - I'm petrified I've already given in.

Amanda Bouchet

#21. I might be a stalwart, but I'm not a kingmaker.

Eric Abetz