David Levithan Quotes

Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed.

You're mine, Pagan Moore. You will always be mine.

You are mine, always, if ye will it or no, if ye want me or nay. Mine, and I willna let ye go

What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.

This man belongs to me, I want him!

There is no folly of which a man who is not a fool cannot get rid except vanity; of this nothing cures a man except experience of its bad consequences, if indeed anything can cure it.

Mine, ... Mine is what she is.

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

Conceit is a disease That the doctors got no cure They've done a lot of research on it But what it is, they're still not sure.

An inflated sense of self-importance? Absolutely, but I think it comes from Doctor Strange need to control things and that's what happens to all surgeons, I think. There's a huge degree of uncertainty and bafflement.

Egotism, pride, etc. must be given up.

I assumed that everything must yield to me, that the entire universe had to flatter my whims, and that I had the right to satisfy them at will.

What is it about possessing things? Why do we feel the need to own what we love, and why do we become jerks when we do? We've all been there- you want something, to possess it. By possessing something you lose it. You finally win the girl of your dreams, the first thing you do is change her. The little things she does with her hair, the way she wears her clothes or the way she chews her gum. Pretty soon what you like, what you changed, what you don't like, blends together like a watercolor in the rain.

And she was mine, she was mine, the key was in my fist, my fist was in my pocket, she was mine.

I want to feel that I own things.

"See," Sasha muttered, eyeing the sun. 'It's mine."

Here is the most telling fact: you wish to possess me.
 Here is another fact: I loved you and let you think you could.

You may have married her, but she is mine. Do you think I shall let you take her? She may be ten times your wife, but, by God, you shall never have her.

You are mine. Do you hear me? You are mine, Della Sloane. I will take care of you. Nothing is taking you away from me. Nothing.

Where pride begins, love ceases.

I see the God complex around me all the time in my fellow economists. I see it in our business leaders. I see it in the politicians we vote for - people who, in the face of an incredibly complicated world, are nevertheless absolutely convinced that they understand the way that the world works.

I want you," he muttered. "Get rid of him and take me. The only risk is losing someone you don't have anyway. He's not what you need, Ella. I am" "Unbelievable," I said in disgust. "What's unbelievable?" "Your ego. It's surrounded by its own cloud of antimatter. You're a black hole of...of hubris!

Vanity is a confounded donkey, very apt to put his head between his legs, and chuck us over; but pride is a fine horse, that will carry us over the ground, and enable us to distance our fellow-travelers.

I'm here because she's here, and she belongs to me. ~Rephaim

This mental space is occupied and everything is mine.