Quotes About Possession

Rob was dismayed to see that she was still wearing his shirt and jeans.

That was why I kept stealing books out of the parlor and returning them. For the only books I ever took were my father's journals. Didn't I have some right to them, being that they, and I, were all that remained of him?

She shrugged. Ownership is a fragile concept.

Demon possession strains the boundaries of credulity, given the sheer number of times it seems to happen. One would really hope demons had better things to do with their time.

Uh-uh Clay drawled above me, Elena's played with you long enough, Its my turn

What the hell is that? I jumped and glanced over to see Kristof staring at Grady, who was waving his arms, rolling his eyes, shaking and moaning. I think he's possessed, I said. By what? Epilepsy?

That's my point, you dumb f-ing Mick. You're not just letting him poach on your turf--you're opening the gate and inviting him in...Why don't you just hand him a bouquet of roses and a box of f-ing condoms while you're at it, Jacko? It's not like that, Jack said. No? Nadia is yours, and it's about time you had the balls to do something about it.

Mmm, not sure I'd call Paige. Remember what you tried to do when you were possessed?" "That was not me. And don't remind me. I'm still creeped out.

I know," the Devil says. He whines. "But I still want it. I want things. That's my job. I even want the things that I already have. I want everything you have. I want the things that don't exist. That's why I'm the Devil.

Some writers write to escape reality. Others write to understand it. But the best writers write in order to take possession of reality, and so transform it.

What she needs,' Tom said aloud 'is a husband.' Agnes said crisply, 'Well, she can't have mine.

to him, money was like the toy bank notes in Monopoly: he wanted it, not for what it could buy, but because it was needed to play the game

He was right about that. A secret was a weapon. But more than that, the possession of knowledge that others did not share always filled Rollo with elation. He could hug it to himself at night and feel powerful.

Possession, it is true, crowns exertion with rest; but it is only in the illusions of fancy that it has power to charm us.

What we enjoy, not what we possess, is ours, and in labouring for the possession of many things, we lose the power to enjoy the best.

But feeling is so different from knowing. My common sense tells me all you can say, but there are times when common sense has no power over me. Common nonsense takes possession of my soul.

We are at best but stewards of what we falsely call our own; yet avarice is so insatiable that it is not in the power of liberality to content it.

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

If you were handed power on a plate you'd be left fighting over a plate.

History is only a tiresome repetition of one story. Persons and classes have sought to win possession of the power of the State in order to live luxuriously out of the earnings of others

Power, a paycheck and control do sick things to those who have the illusion of possessing it.

No. I cannot let him control me.You are mine, Adelina, Enzo growls. Turn your powers against your own fleet.

The king who has the broad bean does not have one whole wafer. (Le roi qui a la fève - N'a la galette entière.)

Allow yourself to be possessed by God by receiving Jesus, and you will never be possessed by anything else.