" Lucien studied the wine in his goblet. "You don’t hold on to power by being everyone’s friend. And among the faeries, lesser and High Fae alike, a firm hand is needed. We’re too powerful, and too bored with immortality, to be checked by anything else. "

― Sarah J. Maas , A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1)