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"Clothes should look as if a woman was born into them. It is a form of possession, this belonging to one another."
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"Do I feel ancient to you now?' he murmered. 'Too different from the person you loved before you knew this?' Her eyes were already glowing green, and her full lips parted. 'No, you don't feel too ancient.' Her voice was husky. 'Or too different. You feel like mine. Whoever you were, whoever you are...you're mine.' Mencheres smiled, his fangs stretching to their full length. 'So you have spoken, so it shall be decreed. For all eternity."

"When she reaches down to touch his shoulder-a gesture only a few species and a million or so years removed from lifting a leg and marking him as her territory with a stream of urine-enough bracelets and bangles to lay track across the Australian Outback slide down her arm and come to a jangling stop at her wrist."

"I' means the Self and 'my' means what belongs to the self. All that is 'my' is acquisition [parigrah]. You should keep [only] whatever acquisition you are able to carry."

"Treasure your relationships, not your possessions."

"When you feel terribly angry, you're possessed by anger ghost."

"Everything from the little house was in the wagon, except the beds and tables and chairs. They did not need to take these, because Pa could always make new ones."

"He's my cat! He's not God's cat! Let God have his own cat! Let God have all the damn old cats He wants, and kill them all! Church is mine!"

"I didn't like anyone except me having their hands all over him. There had been possession in Wolf's touch, and Adam belonged to me."

"Too bad,Elizabeth. You're Stuck with me.Not for a few decades,not for centuries. You're tied to me forever. That boy and girl offspring you talked off? They'll come from me--or no one."

"I like that people can just look at you and know that you are taken, that you are mine. He closed his eyes and laughed. "And yes, I know that sentiment is at the top of the Women's Liberation Movement's list of things not to say to a modern woman."
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"Clothes should be as interesting on the inside as on the outside. Even if you enjoy it totally alone, it's important."

"When I don't have any ideas, I pick up fabric and start working with it and something happens."

"A woman should be less concerned about Paris and more concerned about whether the dress she's about to buy relates to the way she lives."

"The greatest concubines in history knew that everything revealed with nothing concealed is a bore."

"Fashion is treated too much as news rather than what it is, what it does and how it performs."

"The influence of Paris, for instance, is now minimal. Yet a lot is written about Paris fashion."

"Design is a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life."
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