31 Quotes About Possessiveness

You know those people who own you body and soul? They could be your parents, your children, or your significant other. But no matter what, they can be very possessive. Sometimes it’s because they love you so much that they just need to know where everything is and that you could never leave them. Other times it’s because they’re just not used to sharing you and it’s absolutely terrifying to them that you might leave their side Read more

While all relationships have their ups and downs and should always be treated with respect, getting possessive of others is never a good thing. If you feel like someone is overly controlling or possessive of you, there could be a problem there. But if you feel like you’re the one who needs to control someone else, listen up:

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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 your bloodstream. Jodi Picoult
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I love you. You’re mine. I’ll kill any bastard who tries to take you from me. Samantha Young
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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 Ballister stare upon me all you like, but you can't petrify me. You can knock me about to your heart's content without worrying about doing any damage. You can perpetrate any sort of outrage your wicked mind conceives and be sure I'll join in, with a will. You're a troublemaker, Lydia. A Ballister devil. Nothing less than a Mallory hellion would ever suit you."- Vere Mallory - . Loretta Chase
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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 a high pony and pink-dabbed Smith's Rosebud Salve on her lips. "She's got more grip than Crazy Glue.""More cling than Saran Wrap, " Lala added." More hold than Final Net." Cleo giggled." More possession than The Exorcist, " Lala managed." More clench than butt cheeks, " Blue chimed in." More competition than American Idol, " Frankie stuck out her chest and showed them her diva booty roll. The girls burst out laughing." Nice! " Blue lifted her purple gloved hand. Frankie slapped it without a single spark." I hate to be a downer.." Claudine shuffled back into the conversation wearing her slippers and robe. "But that girl will destroy you if she catches you with Brett.""I'm not worried, " Frankie tossed her hair back. "I've seen all the teen movies, and the nice girl gets the boy in the end. . Lisi Harrison
You want to be free. You also want to be...
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You want to be free. You also want to be mine. You can't be both. Nenia Campbell
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of someone or other of their daughters. Jane Austen
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Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is thread, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years. Simone Signoret
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I am yours, ” she whispered. The words cut like knives, barely out of her mouth before he stole them, sealing them with his own lips. Kiersten White
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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. I can't help it-- I'm old-fashioned. I believe marriage is between a man and a man. Armistead Maupin
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Be the love of your love, not the slave of your love. Amit Kalantri
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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. Kresley Cole
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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. Rick Riordan
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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. David Anthony Durham
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Verily, a man should not cling to those who have passed, for he will likely neglect service to the living. Wayne Gerard Trotman
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If you cannot be open-minded, then you do not possess your ideas, your ideas possess you. Bryant McGill
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When lust combines with love, feelings like dissatisfaction, lack of trust, lack of understanding, jealousy and possessiveness are produced Nirja
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I don't own you, you just belong to me. Pushpa Rana
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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 pang of possessiveness sharing it with others. Overriding that feeling was the joy of seeing Robert's face, suffused with confirmation, as he glimpsed the future he had so resolutely sought and had worked so hard to achieve. . Patti Smith
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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. Laura Kaye
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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 of his partner as a prized object. Possessiveness is at the core of the abuser’s mindset, the spring from which all the other streams spout; on some level he feels that he owns you and therefore has the right to treat you as he sees fit. Lundy Bancroft
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I would fight of course. Oh, I would fight. Better destroy everything than surrender her. Vladimir Nabokov
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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 Kristen Ashley
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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. Dorothy L. Sayers
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What? Just because I can't have you right now, doesn't mean I'm okay with him having you. Cora Carmack
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More than jealousy or possessiveness pettiness kills love. Marty Rubin
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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 Odette at the Verdurins' and had haunted for her all evening. And he did not have (as I had, afterward, at Combray in my childhood) happy days in which to forget the sufferings that would return with the night. For his days, Swann must pass them without Odette; and as he told himself, now and then, to allow so pretty a woman to go out by herself in Paris was just as rash as to leave a case filled with jewels in the middle of the street. In this mood he would scowl furiously at the passers-by, as though they were so many pick-pockets. But their faces - a collective and formless mass - escaped the grasp of his imagination, and so failed to feed the flame of his jealousy. Marcel Proust
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You chase off every man that’s ever been interested, and you do it without even trying. Dianna Hardy
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Whether you buy a new TV, or car, (etc.) or any other “material” thing is often “immaterial” to God. Donald L. Hicks
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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 kisses that drained the strength from my knees. I realized he was mouthing words against my skin. Not words. Just one word. Mine. Rose Christo
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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. D.S. Wrights