244 quotes found
“More than jealousy or possessiveness pettiness kills love.”
“Nobody can control their emotional reactions, we can only control our actions, and my current action was to slap my jealousy in the face and shove her in a vat of shut the fuck up.”
“Jealousy is about ownership and control, not love. People very often dont see that. "Infidelity is simply defined as the breaking of trust and the keeping of secrets in an intimate partnership." H...”
“A desert lily need not turn jealous eyes toward the common violet.”
“She's just jealous, people say, as if jealousy is something minor. But it's not, it's the worst, it's the worst feeling there is - incoherent and confused and shameful, and at the same time self-ri...”
“Archer wouldn't consider her allowance of the guard to be evidence of the powers of rational argument. He'd take it as proof that she was in love with whichever of her guards was the most handsome.”
“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...”
“Even jealousy is based on fantasies: a fantasy that someone else has what belongs to you.”
“Then his jealousy rejoiced at the discovery, as though that jealousy had had an independent existence, fiercely egotistical, gluttonous of every thing that would feed its vitality, even at the expe...”
“I was beginning to see that Phineas could get away with anything. I couldn't help envying him that a little, which was perfectly normal. There was no harm in envying even your best friend a little”
“Fuckin' my man in my bed," he said over Gabriel's shoulder. "You got some goddamn nerve, girl.”
“she was polite, charming, and damn pretty. Braith wanted to hate her, but she just couldnt. The bitch.”
“Jealousy is like wood ants, it will nibble away, until there's nothing left.”
“ 'You like jealousy. You like knowing people want you.' He wasn't talking about sex, and my heart slowed a little. 'Is it not natural to want to be liked?' 'That ain't what you want. It's like you ...”
“For despite his confidence, and his apparent maturity, I suspected that there was in him a deep and childish need to elevate, and idealize, the love object. This is not uncommon in artists. The ver...”
“A watched pot never boils, but if I took my eyes from these negative thoughts for a second they would spill over the edges of my lips, and boil the beautiful moment alive as we lived it.”
“She's a fucking rat trying to humiliate a queen...She's nothing”
“A popular man arouses the jealousy of the powerful.”
“Shakespeare calls jealousy yellow and green; I think it may be called black and white for it most assuredly views white as black, and black as white. The most fanciful surmises wear the aspect of t...”
“Jealousy is like a cactus its respond and reaction is thorny”
