{"quotes":[{"text":"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.","author":"Armistead Maupin","tags":["co-dependence","desire","jealousy","joyful-living","love","passion","possessiveness","selfishness"],"id":3430,"author_id":"Armistead+Maupin"},{"text":"You chase off every man that’s ever been interested, and you do it without even trying.","author":"Dianna Hardy","tags":["jealous","jealous-hero","jealousy","possessive","possessive-hero","possessiveness","rivalry"],"id":14397,"author_id":"Dianna+Hardy"},{"text":"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.","author":"Jane Austen","tags":["bachelorhood","classics","marriage","men","possessiveness","single-men","wives","women"],"id":37135,"author_id":"Jane+Austen"},{"text":"Whether you buy a new TV, or car, (etc.) or any other “material” thing is often “immaterial” to God.","author":"Donald L. Hicks","tags":["god","materialism","materialistic","possessiveness"],"id":42817,"author_id":"Donald+L.+Hicks"},{"text":"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.","author":"Kiersten White","tags":["love","passion","passionate","possessive","possessiveness"],"id":64002,"author_id":"Kiersten+White"},{"text":"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.","author":"Marcel Proust","tags":["jealousy","possessiveness"],"id":74723,"author_id":"Marcel+Proust"},{"text":"More than jealousy or possessiveness pettiness kills love.","author":"Marty Rubin","tags":["jealousy","love","pettiness","possessiveness"],"id":75538,"author_id":"Marty+Rubin"},{"text":"I don't own you, you just belong to me.","author":"Pushpa Rana","tags":["belong","feel","identity","love","own","possessiveness","you"],"id":80561,"author_id":"Pushpa+Rana"},{"text":"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.","author":"Dorothy L. Sayers","tags":["devotion","jealousy","love","possessiveness"],"id":84373,"author_id":"Dorothy+L.+Sayers"},{"text":"I would fight of course. Oh, I would fight. Better destroy everything than surrender her.","author":"Vladimir Nabokov","tags":["lust","obsessed","obsession","obsessions","possessiveness"],"id":115345,"author_id":"Vladimir+Nabokov"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":30,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}