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“I tried to visualize my jealousy as a yellowy-brown cloud boiling around inside me, then going out through my nose like smoke and turning into a stone and falling down into the ground. That did wor...”
“The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.”
“A jealous husband is an ugly thing.”
“Why wasn't I nicer to Alice? When she has been nothing but sweet to me? When I actually like her? I know I should say something to her, but before I can find the words, she's tooting her horn and d...”
“You never felt jealousy, did you, Miss Eyre? Of course not: I need not ask you; because you never felt love. You have both sentiments yet to experience: your soul sleeps; the shock is yet to be giv...”
“I stared at him. Maybe it had been hard for him being second best too.”
“Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.”
“Jealousy is a disease, it's like a poison.”
“No boy was ever so interesting to them as when he was interesting to someone else.”
“Humans are a creature who are always unpleased and have a weak emotion of jealousy. You become jealous of someone because you believe they have something better than you do or something you should ...”
“At that time, he was satisfying a sensual curiosity by experiencing the pleasures of people who live for love. He had believed he could stop there, that he would not be obliged to learn their sorro...”
“I'd rather have your lifeblood tainted than spilled on a forest floor.'He said no more, just held her. 'I'm not worth it,' she whispered at last.'Who says so?''I do.''Then you don't know what love is.”
“Stay away to abuse and misemploy knowledge, and neutrality with jealousy since it reflects the lack of sense.”
“At this point, the jealousy that tortured me all my life commenced, and the force with which it came over me marked me forever. It became my true passion, utterly heedless of any attempts at convin...”
“That was the worst period of all: it is my profession to imagine, to think in images: fifty times through the day, and immediately I woke during the night, a curtain would rise and the play would b...”
“The steel suddenly touched her heart. Ah, jealousy, it was jealousy, the cold hand mashing her slowly, squeezing her, diminishing her soul.”
“What was it about that short creature with her wild hair and spurious air of purity and why would anyone much less two men love her and to such disastrous ends.”
“The jealousy holds neither the colours and nor the places. It is voiceless and timeless a time bomb within you to blow up only you, not others.”
“Love has its own dark morality when rivalry enters in.”
“JEALOUS, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.”
