Quotes About Possession

book collecting is only meaningful if it's personal," Oscar clarified. "If it's just another way of accumulating wealth instead of for the books themselves it isn't right. Collectors are trying to protect themselves. To separate themselves. It's a hierarchy.

For some nights I slept profoundly; but still every morning I felt the same lassitude, and a languor weighted upon me all day. I felt myself a changed girl. A strange melancholy was stealing over me, a melancholy that I would not have interrupted. Dim thoughts of death began to open, and an idea that I was slowly sinking took gentle, and, somehow, not unwelcome, possession of me. If it was sad, the tone of mind which this induced was also sweet.

If you love something, set it free. If it comes back, it was, and always will be yours. If it never returns, it was never yours to begin with.

But you do not need to worry, Cooper. What is mine, I keep.

At her incendiary words, he drove deeper—far deeper—into her, unable to help himself. "So," she said, her fingers on his cheek, "now I've made you mine." He took her fingers in hand and kissed them one by one. "You made me yours long ago, but now you finally claimed me.

Such men as we are cannot fool with delicate stuff. Some men are meant to command and other must obey. There is a kind of death. Sometimes you much die before you can possess and command.

You listen to me, woman: you're mine! I'll not share you and, by God, we shall be married!" His mouth came down hard on hers and his lips crushed hers as he stamped his possession on her startled mouth.

Yes, well... I suppose the man who owns nothing is free." Gunnulf replied, "A man's possessions own him more than he owns them.

Te amaba como si me pertenecieras, sin recordar que nadie pertenece a nadie, que poseer algo, cualquier cosa, es un vano padecimiento.

The average player has the ball for only 53.4 seconds every game (according to Chris Carling, the English performance analyst at Lille in France) so any player's main job is to occupy the right positions for the other eighty-nine minutes and 6.6 seconds.

Though we nearly lost everything last month, when the mainframe got possessed by Sumerian demons, and we had to call in a technodruid to exorcise it. I'd never heard language like that before, and even after it was all over, the office still smelled of burning mistletoe for weeks. And I might add that the computer Helpline people were no bloody use at all.

See - this book belongs to you,' Hannah said sweetly. 'No young lady,' the birdman said. 'It belongs to you - but you don't belong to it.' He leaned in very close to her. 'You belong to you,' he said.

Buying is a profound pleasure.

We kiss all the time." I clear my throat, then add, "We just...do it in private." "A smug expression crosses his face. "I don't buy it for a second, 'cause if you were my girlfriend and a stud like me was livin' in your house, I'd kiss you in front of the guy every chance I got as a reminder." "A reminder of w-w-what?" "That you were mine.

Dios mio, I think my brother lost his balls somewhere between here and Mexico. Or maybe Brittany has them zipped inside that fancy purse (of hers).

You can't keep her." I know that. But I'm not ready to give her up just yet.

I rest my hand on the small of her back as we walk up to the house. Don't ask me why I feel a need to claim her as mine. Maybe deep down I am a Neanderthal.

the goods of he earth remain the earth's, and man does not own even the skin he is wrapped in. All he owns are the feelings of his heart.

To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

A man gains no possession better than a good woman, nothing more horrible than a bad one.

It's only since we've had Steve with us that I've realized how much of himself a man has to give before he's really possessed. I used to think it was possession because we lived together as man and wife. I didn't know how little it can amount to wanting a woman at night, putting up with her in the daytime.

Our evils are due mainly to the failure to apply to our international relationships knowledge which is of practically universal possession, often self-evident in the facts of daily life and experience.

A man may be in as just possession of the truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.

A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.