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Bernie is Roxy, Terry, Ricky, and Darrell’s father. Bernie is a crime boss in London, and Roxy admires him for his reputation for violence, recognizing how it protects him. Bernie loves Roxy, but when Roxy discovers that Bernie had Roxy’s mother killed and she ousts him from his business, Bernie does not hesitate to retaliate. He cooks up a plan to have Roxy’s skein removed and surgically implanted into Darrell instead, to restore the power to the men in the family. Thus, he becomes just as corrupted by power as anyone else, doing anything that he can in order to maintain the existing power structure—even if it comes at the cost of his daughter’s life.
Bernie Monke Quotes in The Power
The The Power quotes below are all either spoken by Bernie Monke or refer to Bernie Monke. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 2
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The shape of power is always the same; it is the shape of a tree. Root to tip, central trunk branching and re-branching, spreading wider in ever-thinner, searching fingers.
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Chapter 19: Roxy
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You can turn money into anything. One, two, three, presto. Turn drugs into influence with Tatiana Moskalev, President of Bessapara. Turn your ability to bring pain and fear into a factory where the authorities will turn a blind eye to whatever you're cooking up there that sends purple-tinged steam into the skies at midnight.
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Chapter 43
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There is a voice in Margot’s head. It says; You can’t get there from here.
She sees it all in that instant, the shape of the tree of power. Root to tip, branching and re-branching. Of course, the old tree still stands. There is only one way, and that is to blast it entirely to pieces.
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Bernie Monke Quotes in The Power
The The Power quotes below are all either spoken by Bernie Monke or refer to Bernie Monke. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 2
Quotes
The shape of power is always the same; it is the shape of a tree. Root to tip, central trunk branching and re-branching, spreading wider in ever-thinner, searching fingers.
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Chapter 19: Roxy
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You can turn money into anything. One, two, three, presto. Turn drugs into influence with Tatiana Moskalev, President of Bessapara. Turn your ability to bring pain and fear into a factory where the authorities will turn a blind eye to whatever you're cooking up there that sends purple-tinged steam into the skies at midnight.
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Chapter 43
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There is a voice in Margot’s head. It says; You can’t get there from here.
She sees it all in that instant, the shape of the tree of power. Root to tip, branching and re-branching. Of course, the old tree still stands. There is only one way, and that is to blast it entirely to pieces.
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