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

by Marion Blackwood

That desperate little girl inside me still wants people to like me. It’s stupid, I know that. I shouldn’t care about other people’s opinions of me. But I do. I guess that’s what happens when you grow up being taught that everything is your fault and that you need to atone.

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.