immaterial” to God.

The sense of ownership is one reason why abuse tends to get worse as relationships get more serious. The more history and commitment that develop in the couple, the more the abuser comes to think...

If you try to find a replacement, you’ll be sadly disappointed, I can’t be replaced. I’m the only man in all the world who possesses the right combination of qualities for you.You can turn your...

You want to be free. You also want to be mine. You can’t be both.

Again he thought of his own losses, and he wondered why it was that the things a person had lost— or might lose— defined him more than the things he yet possessed.

When lust combines with love, feelings like dissatisfaction,lack of trust,lack of understanding,jealousy and possessiveness are produced

It took so long to find you…and now I don’t want it to change. I want it all set in amber. I want us and nobody else in the most selfish way you can imagine....

Too bad,Elizabeth. You’re Stuck with me.Not for a few decades,not for centuries. You’re tied to me forever. That boy and girl offspring you talked off? They’ll come from me–or no one.

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years.

If you cannot be open-minded, then you do not possess your ideas, your ideas possess you.

You’re my gold, nahna xaxsah is my hahnee rah. Kay jahnan nahna lisa, na uvan tee luh kay. Ana kay jahnan nahna pahnsahna, Circe. Kay nayeesan tee. Fahzah.You’re my gold, your cunt is my liquid...

Observing people taking in the work I had watched Robert create was an emotional experience. It had left our private world. It was what I had always wanted for him, but I felt a slight...

Be the love of your love, not the slave of your love.

You’re beautiful, Finnie, but by the gods you have never been more beautiful than you are right now, spread before me, wrapped in my wool and filled with me

I love you. You’re mine. I’ll kill any bastard who tries to take you from me.

For God’s sake, let’s take the word ‘possess’ and put a brick round its neck and drown it … We can’t possess one another. We can only give and hazard all we have.

She’d found him. She’d helped him. She’d saved him. He was hers. And they’d taken him away, ripped him from her arms, literally.

I don’t own you, you just belong to me.

What? Just because I can’t have you right now, doesn’t mean I’m okay with him having you.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself, Love possesses not nor would it be possessed: For love is sufficient unto love.

I spend a quarter of every day inside you. When you set limits outside of that I can’t help but see them as arbitrary.

Something strange started to rage inside me, hearing you inhale sharply as I tried to kiss those scars away or etch them deeper into your skin, wanting to mark you in an entirely different way.

I dunno.” She sat on the bench and hugged the robe like a pillow. “I still think that Brett guy is cute.””Good luck getting him away from Bekka.” Cleo gathered her silky black hair into...

Always happens with men. They promise friendship. They promise to treat you as an equal. In the end, all they want is to possess you.

Rahul had wondered how someone could love their beloved so much that their dedication to them became one of the wonders of the world.

So much of the language of love was like that: you devoured someone with your eyes, you drank in the sight of him, you swallowed him whole. Love was substance, broken down and beating through...

He broke away from my mouth and trailed his lips down the front of my throat. I felt his lips close around my scars. He kissed away their ugliness. His lips parted in tingling butterfly...

You chase off every man that’s ever been interested, and you do it without even trying.

For in this way Swann was kept in the state of painful agitation which had once before been effective in making his interest blossom into love, on the night when he had failed to find...

Verily, a man should not cling to those who have passed, for he will likely neglect service to the living.