Quotes About Ownership

I blame myself more so because I hung a curve. If you want to point a finger, point it at me.

The actual stuff my family owned, those boxes under my stairs, I can't quite bear to look at. I like other people's things better. They come with other people's history.

If you own a bar on your own, you're a player; if you own it with your beloved twin sister, you're– Irish.

I like other people's things better. They come with other people's history.

Against the far wall was a wire cage holding a pack of unblinking bunnies. World's dumbest pet, I thought. Who would want an animal that sat, quivered, and shat everywhere? They say you can litter-box train them, but they lie.

He refills my drink without me having to ask, somehow ferreting out one last cup of the good stuff. He has claimed me, placed a flag in me: I was here first, she's mine, mine. It feels nice, after my recent series of nervous, respectful post-feminist men, to be a territory.

If you own a bar on your own, you're a player; if you own it with your beloved twin sister, you're—" "Irish." "Go on.

He has claimed me, placed a flag in me: I was here first, she's mine, mine.

You have to admit you're a jerk and that everything was all your fault." "So, like, what men are supposed to do in general," I said.

that have never known inhabitants, or homes that have known owners and seen them ejected, the house standing triumphantly voided, humanless.

Never use the passive voice. Do not say, 'It will get done.' Say, 'I'll do it,' and then stick to a solid, unwavering deadline

To turn life into words is to make life yours to do with as you please, instead of the other way round

people in the South who can do the work that the slaves did?" "All the more reason," said Lincoln, reasonably, "to reimburse the slave-owners.

He had thought that home was something one possessed, but the things one had possessed were cursed with change; it was what one didn't possess that remained the same and welcomed him.

And yet he was happier in his unused room simply because it was his, his possession. I thought with bitterness and envy, if one possesses a thing securely, one need never use it.

The hurt is in the act of possession: we are too small in mind and body to possess another person without pride or to be possessed without humiliation.

She was his like a table or a chair, but a table owned you, too - by your fingerprints.

We are possessed by nobody not even by ourselves

he looked as a man might look who owned the whole world, the whole

If only it were possible to love without injury—fidelity isn't enough: I had been faithful to Anne and yet I had injured her. The hurt is in the act of possession: we are too small in mind and body to possess another person without pride or to be possessed without humiliation.

If one possess a thing securely one need never use it.

I thought with bitterness and envy: if one possesses a thing securely, one need never use it.

Can't own a woman, Mike. Wonderful companions, can't own them." "I know.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children, because they're more certain they are their own.