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Quotes About Possession

We fight our wars and leave in our wake the redolent reek of suffering and misery. These plains are vast, are they not? What terrible cost would we face if we just left each other alone? An end to this squabble over land - Father Shadow knows, no-one really owns it. The game of possession belongs to us, not to the rocks and earth, the grasses and the creatures walking the surface in their fraught struggle to survive.
~ Steven Erikson
But ownership bereft of propriety was a lie.
~ Steven Erikson
What's the big deal—you've read it, haven't you?" Then he'd take them down to the used-book store and sell them for peanuts. He never got anything close to what they were worth. He didn't like them cluttering up the house, or even my room. They weren't going to get my books.
~ Steven Gould
She shrugged. "Saving lives doesn't mean much to me," she said. "You have to protect what's yours. That's all that matters.
~ Steven Montano
I bought a cheap piece of land... It was on someone else's property.
~ Steven Wright
I'll have your heart, if not by gift my knife Shall carve it out. I'll have your heart, your life.
~ Stevie Smith
I will give you meat, Salamiel thought, and once you eat of my offerings, you will be mine.
~ Storm Constantine
It was likely that many people had been affected by them in a similar way; dreaming of celebrities, dreaming of touching them and possessing their bodies for a night. I was probably no different than their other admirers.
~ Storm Constantine
This man was hers. She could have him whenever she wanted to.
~ Storm Constantine
You are his creature and you must lure him to me.
~ Storm Constantine
He readied for the hand of the demon who rode him, held it tight until the nails broke the skin. He had already learned that sex conjured images in his head, and this time there were unbelievably vivid. He sensed that the man who possessed him wore the aspect of a demon like a garment. Within, in ignorance, he was a being of light, and the commerce of their flesh was sacred. If Daniel concentrated on this aspect, it became more real in his mind.
~ Storm Constantine
Aninka regarded Taziel speculatively. She could swear that he'd somehow decided to keep Daniel for himself, but she wasn't sure of his reason for that. Simple altruism just didn't ring true.
~ Storm Constantine
There is nothing of yours I have not possessed. Soon, I shall even possess your body as I have taken those whom you love. You have no power to resist me.
~ Storm Constantine
Mine now," he said aloud, then laughed softly. "All mine.
~ Storm Constantine
Lily and Owen, he wanted to keep near him, and would not surrender them.
~ Storm Constantine
I wanted you, Pharinet. Is that so terrible? I love your brother. It often frightens me how much. I have to possess what he possesses.
~ Storm Constantine
I bought a white Panamera - and then sold it because I had no use for it.
~ Danielle Bregoli
I think most artists find it difficult to part with their work but it's the parting that keeps us alive and keeps us working. In the case of the chariot, although it's been sold I actually still have it, just in another form.
~ Kit Williams
I said, '200 pairs of jeans,' and then it just kind of went everywhere. I don't really own 200 pairs of jeans - I own a million pairs of jeans. No, but I definitely have a very solid amount. I won't say a number, but it's aggressive.
~ Bella Hadid
Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.
~ Maria Edgeworth
Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.
~ e. e. cummings
Love is possession, a sort of vanity.
~ Chloe Thurlow, Katie in Love
Don't deny me what's mine, Brighton.
~ A. Zavarelli, Stutter
I'd single-handedly go to war and burn their whole organization to the ground before I ever let them harm what was mine. And there were no two ways about it- Brighton would always be mine.
~ A. Zavarelli, Stutter