Throne of Ice and Blood (Flame and Thorns, #2)

by Marion Blackwood

“You’re right,” he says, tilting his head back so that he meets my gaze. “I kneel for nothing and no one.” His golden eyes burn like flames, searing right through my soul. “But for you… For you, I would kneel.”

If you want to control people, isolating them is really the smartest move you can make. As long as you control their food supply, their healthcare, their education, and, most of all, their access to information and the outside world, it will be almost impossible for them to fight back.