Agatha Christie Quotes

It's a bad word, 'belong.' Especially when you put it with somebody you love ... You can't own a human being.

I hate jealousy, I hate possessiveness. I'm nobody's possession.

They don't like the thought of someone else making demands on the person whom they see as belonging entirely to them.

Isn't it possible, he wondered, for one person to love another without trying to own each other? Or is that buried so deep in our genes that we can never get it out? Territoriality.

She doesn’t want me to own her. (Dante) Well, the Simi doesn’t understand that. Owning’s not so bad. I own akri and he kind of fun. (Simi)

It's strange, isn't it, how the idea of belonging to someone can sound so great? It can be comforting, the way it makes things decided. We like the thought of being held, until it's too tight. We like that certainty, until it means there's no way out. And we like being his, until we realize we're not ours anymore.

The harder you try to control your girlfriend the further you'll drive her away, so stop acting like a dumbbell.

Love and exclusive possession can never go together.

It all depends on whether you have things, or they have you.

If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.

We use the same possessive pronouns for everything, but do we own our lives or sisters or husbands in the same way we own our shoes? Do we own any of them at all?

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

I don't want to be owned by anyone.

Other than marriage, she doesn't control me and I don't control her.

If a woman feels anchored to a man's plans, she may start to resent him for the fun she's worried she's missing.

It is a false belief to think you can own somebody, I'm out of that now. The man should understand he does not own the woman, and the woman should understand she does not own the man.

I admit that I am very possessive.

This desire to govern a woman -- it lies very deep, and men and women must fight it together.... But I do love you surely in a better way then he does." He thought. "Yes -- really in a better way. I want you to have your own thoughts even when I hold you in my arms.

Are you mine?” Yes. “Are you mine?” Yes. “Are you mine?” No. “No?” No. I loved being yours. But now I’m mine, which is all I ever was, in the end.

She believes that Tobias belongs to her now. She doesn't know the truth, that he belongs to himself.

When you take a woman away from her man, what you get is a woman who can be taken away from her man.

How was she to tie herself to a man without permitting him to imprison her? And was there some means of acquiring things without those things possessing her?

No human being can ever "own" another, whether in friendship, love, marriage or parenthood. Many human relationships have been ruined and happiness far too often changed to misery by a failure to understand this.

Why does everyone want to own me?" Pippa mumbles. She's got her head in her hands. "Why do they all want to control my life -- how I look, whom I see, what I do or don't do? Why can't they just let me alone?" "Because you're beautiful," Ann answers, watching the fire lick her palm. "People always think they can own beautiful things.

He realized that if he didn't leave, it would never be his life. It would be theirs.