Emily Giffin Quotes

I do like to belong to a man.

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

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

My beloved is mine and I am his.

You own a piece of me," he murmurs as he holds me afterward. "Good," I tell him. "And just so you know… I'm never giving it back.

When we marry, we are authorized to take possession of the other person, body and soul.

...she was still water in his hands. He didn't know how to hold on.

Vadim was both my teacher and my husband. I placed myself entirely in his hands.

It is one thing to own a woman, and it is another to have her within the bonds of an excellent mastery.

Every man's dream is to be able to sink into the arms of a woman without also falling into her hands.

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

Everybody is owned by somebody.

The pleasures of love are for those who are hopelessly addicted to another living creature. The reasons for such addiction are so many that I suspect they are never the same in any two cases. It includes passion but does not survive by passion; it has its whiffs of the agreeable vertigo of young love, but it is stable more often than dizzy; it is a growing, changing thing, and it is tactful enough to give the addicted parties occasional rests from strong and exhausting feeling of any kind.

A happy wedlock is a long falling in love.

I am asking you to marry me because I love you,” he said, “because I cannot imagine living my life without you. I want to see your face in the morning, and then at night, and a hundred times in between. I want to grow old with you, I want to laugh with you, and I want to sigh to my friends about how managing you are, all the while secretly knowing I am the luckiest man in town.” “What?” she demanded. He shrugged. “A man’s got to keep up appearances. I’ll be universally detested if everyone realizes how perfect you are.

Aye, well, he'll be wed a long time," he said callously. "Do him no harm to keep his breeches on for one night. And they do say that abstinence makes the heart grow firmer, no?" "Absence," I said, dodging the spoon for a moment. "AND fonder. If anything's growing firmer from abstinence, it wouldn't be his heart.

Tomorrow you will belong to someone else," Finn said. "But tonight, you're with me

Do as you like with me. I'm your parcel. I have only our address on me. Open me, or readdress me.

How can you have confidence in a woman who will not risk entrusting her whole life to you, day and night?

I opened my mouth and kissed you then, the first time all night, attacked you and surrendered completely, and let’s get out of here. I’m ready, I’m finished, let’s not break up, no, no. Take me home, my boyfriend, my love.

I'm not fretting over control with you. You can have all of the command you desire as long as we're together. I'll just save my demands for the bedroom." I flushed. Bones just chuckled and brought my hand to his lips.

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

It's only fair to warn you that you sealed your fate tonight. When you knew you were in trouble, you came to me. That makes twice, Mercy, and twice is almost as good as a declaration. You are mine now... Ben says you might run. If you do, I will find you and bring you back. Every time you run, Mercy. I won't force you, but... I won't leave or let you leave either. If you can fight that cursed fairy drink, you can certainly overcome any advantage being an Alpha gives me if you really want to. No more excuses, Mercy. You are mine, and I am keeping you.

Tonight the world is yours, as am I.

I know being with me is not easy. But I want you to understand no one has me, or has ever had me, except you.