"If you believe in lightning bolts, why not do everything in your power to take them for yourself"

I believe this quote is important also confusing, because Nora has so much power in herself and control over the bad guys and she needs to use it and everything she had over them. She could make threats, she has things she could tell them like I escaped two men one with a gun. Lastly she could even kill herself, the Lumen Dei needs her alive for it to work. She needs to use what she has because she might be killed if she doesn't. They want her dead and they now know she has infiltrated their den. That is why she needs to take her power and use it.