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Possession Quotes


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


"Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity."


"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."


"The greatest possession is self-possession."


"Myrnin said softly. "And how is it that you do not understand that HERE, in THIS place, this girl belongs to me, not to you?"



"Well, they had a lot of the things they found in his possession. They had the map, you know, that marked the route of the parade. They had statements from the bus driver and the taxicab driver that hauled him somewhere."



"We go on multiplying our conveniences only to multiply our cares. We increase our possessions only to the enlargement of our anxieties."


"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."



"Always happens with men. They promise friendship. They promise to treat you as an equal. In the end, all they want is to possess you."


"Clothes should look as if a woman was born into them. It is a form of possession, this belonging to one another."


"Treasure your relationships, not your possessions."


"You, Jane, I must have you for my own--entirely my own."


"Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness."


"In this worldly life, one is possessed by the three ghosts of the mind, speech and the body."


"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."



"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 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."


"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."


"How long since you had sex? Aeron asked his friend. Another moan. "Two-three days. Paris wiped his mouth with the back of his wrist. Which meant Paris hadnYt had a female since before their return. But Aeron knew Lucien had flashed the warrior into town every night theyYd spent in the desert for just that reason. Had the warrior had trouble finding a willing partner? "Let me take you into town. You can- "No. Only want Sienna. My female. Mine."


"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."


"And you are mine, and you will be mine. Theywill not get you. - Eric from Dead and Gone"


"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."


"It's alright, Kitten, Bones said. 'He won't shoot. Tate lowered his gun, even as the sudden dizziness from blood-loss made me sway. Bones took my gun and casually handed it to Juan, who gapped at him in amazement. 'You called her Kitten? And she let you? She put me in a coma for three days when I called her that. My balls never recovered from her smashing them into my spine. 'And well she should have, Bones agreed. 'She's mine. Kitten, and no one else's."


"Nope,' he whispered, when I tried to tug it away. 'Mine now."
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