Oh. I just assumed… That because I am so absorbed by him everyone must be too.

If the rest of them can survive only by destroying us, then why should we wish them to survive? . . . Nothing can make it moral to destroy the best. One can’t be punished...

Some prevailing signs of social climbers are their:- ticking cunning ambition- times of deceit- hand of wickedness- gloves of bigotry- hidden bunch of schemes- cup of pride- sip of prejudice- odour of greed- grit of...

She sang, as requested. There was much about love in the ballad: faithful love that refused to abandon its object; love that disaster could not shake; love that, in calamity, waxed fonder, in poverty clung...

You’re mine and I wouldn’t let you prostitute yourself for pizza. Now go put on a shirt,” I said, pulling two slices onto a plate.

I had a dream about you. You were whispering in Van Gogh’s ear, which was in my pocket at the time, so people thought you were storing secrets in my pants. The NSA got jealous,...

The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.

I ought to be jealous of the tower. She is more famous than I am.

A lot of people get so hung up on what they can’t have that they don’t think for a second about whether they really want it.

Because whipping an atlas at Jackson’s head while he was flirt-touching that Frankie girl in geography would have been very satisfying. And beating him with the Eiffel Tower snowglobe while he kissed Cleo in French...

Every day, streets papered with more and more for .Reward, reward, reward.Reward for information.If you see something, say something.A paper town, a paper world: paper rustling in the airm whispering to me, hissing out a...

Then why was his tongue in your mouth? Was he conducting a clinical test of your gag reflex?” He smiled, but not nicely. “How is your gag reflex, Ms. Lane? Are you a hair trigger?”Barrons...

Did I mention really, really jealous.

get all the breaks.

Jealousy is a general human behavior, Until it’s not changed.

I am convinced that the jealous, the angry, the bitter and the egotistical are the first to race to the top of mountains. A confident person enjoys the journey, the people they meet along the...

Envy is for people who don’t have the self-esteem to be jealous.

Blessed are ones who are all dressed-up in the outfit of the life’s simplicity in reality and the stressed-out are all those who are busy keeping the practicality in totality in life.

You can wait as long as you like, pretty one, it won’t make any difference. He will never see you as anything more than some victim he has to protect. Why he thinks it his...

Use your hater to make you greater!

When I hear people say Rest In Peace, I get jealous, because I’m a restless sleeper.

What was this yearning, tearing at her insides like hunger and thirst? It couldn’t be love. Love was warm and soft, like a bed of leaves. But this was dark, like the shade under a...

jealousy, I don’t know.

A jealous husband is an ugly thing.

There they were, the movers and shakers of Benjamin Franklin Hight – the sports stars, the cheerleaders, the good, the great, the gorgeous – bent over their pizzas.Trish sensed my angst and said, “My mother...

In the case of Albertine, I felt that I should never discover anything, that, out of that tangled mass of details of fact and falsehood, I should never unravel the truth: and that it would...

Those who pretend as if they don’t love you, are the ones who would hate to see you love another person.

Extreme emotions could be lethal. If I can’t have you nobody will, and so forth. Death could set in.

What is inspiration in strangers is jealousy in kinsmen.

Sir, I did not count your glasses of wine, why should you number up my cups of tea?

Fear, jealousy and anger are manifestations of a lack of being in love. Being in love is possible only when you are in love with yourslef first. Self-love is an inborn quality that has been...

I don’t understand women that call themselves a “bitch”. It doesn’t empower a woman. Rather, it reveals to everyone that you were deeply hurt at one time. Because of the pain your still carrying, you...

Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.

He was jealous of her future, and she of his past.

Everybody, he mused had everything worked out. Except me

Ben wore the same goofy smile as in the photo. Take that, new guy! I can make him happy too!

a dense wall of greenery bordered it, …an impenetrable barrier of oaks, evergreen shrubs, blackberry that somehow resisted the frost, and thorns. In the defense department, the witches would make Sleeping Beauty’s evil witch weep...

She made a visual inventory of the disaster and confirmed that the girl was curled up like a snail, her head hidden between her arms: terrified but intact. “My God!” Rosa Cabarcas exclaimed. “What I...

If you ever look sideways at another man or attempt to refuse me I shall beat you. Got it?

She gave her husband such a night of sexual pleasure that his eyes followed her constantly after that, narrow and hot. He grew molten when she passed near other men, and at night they made...

Unrequited love,” I’d say. He’d look at me sideways in that cunning way he did and say, “what about it?” and I’d reply, “it’s not your color.” Pithy. Just to show him that I’d noticed....

What is jealousy but a reflection of your own failures?

Why do you care?” His eyes looked casually over my shoulder, down the hallway then flicked back to me. “Are you jealous?” his left eyebrow rose slightly.”Of Lizzie, umm, no,” I mouthed.”Ah, huh” he didn’t...

Really, Sage? A date?”I sighed. “Yes, Adrian. A date.”A real date. Not, like, doing homework together,” he added. “I mean like where you go out to a movie or something. And a movie that’s not...

As jealousy entered, trust left… and their dream of a relationship began to wither into a nightmare… a nightmare in which love just wasn’t enough.

True confidence is not about what you take from someone to restore yourself, but what you give back to your critics because they need it more than you do.

Jealousy is a fever that arises from a stupid, baseless excitement in our unthinking brain.Jealousy is a phenomenon of auto-suggestion.The woman you love has gone to bed with X. You hate X, you hate her,...

You may think it all very fine, Mr. Huntingdon, to amuse yourself with rousing my jealousy; but take care you don’t rouse my hate instead. And when you have once extinguished my love, you will...

Whatever worldly thing we may covet – zealously striving to obtain and then retain – never seems to bring an end to our desires. Covetousness, envy, jealousy, and greed always escalate into a vicious spiral,...

Those who truly want greatness must surround themselves with people even greater than they are.