Nicole Holofcener Quotes

I had a relationship where we found out each other's Facebook passwords and would check each other's messages. That's not healthy.

I still feel like I've crashed the party.

Being with an insanely jealous person is like being in the room with a dead mammoth.

A baby! I hated babies. I, who for two and a half years had been the center of a tender universe, felt the axis wrench and a polar chill immobilize my bones. I would be a bystander, a museum mammoth.

My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was.

That I have no right to be jealous is irrelevant. It is a human passion: the sick, white underbelly of love.

The lustful glances thrown his way made me wish he wasn’t such a damned bowl of eye candy." - Cat re: Bones

I want to drag you off and hide you away,” he whispered. “Why?” “I always knew you were beautiful, but now everyone else will too. I won’t be able to keep other boys away from you, and it’ll make me crazy.

I refused to believe that love could take any other form than mine: I measured love by the extent of my jealousy, and by that standard of course she could not love me at all.

I had to wrestle daily with both my inadequacy and my uncontrollable jealousy. I didn't want to kill her, but hoped someone else might do the job for me.

Now, she could't help but think he was just a big version of a jealous boy friend.

It was the first time I'd ever felt truly jealous of anyone else in my entire life.

Jealousy's a proof of love, But 'tis a weak and unavailing medicine; It puts out the disease and makes it show, But has no power to cure.

Mine is a jealous heart, imagines things that never are.

Jealousy is a keen observer, but looks for all the wrong signs.

Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.

Even our concepts about romantic love, I think, are destructive; treating people as property is destructive; being jealous of other people is destructive. You know, being jealous is a perfectly natural thing to feel, so it's not about suppressing jealousy, but learning to come to terms with it and to recognize its destructiveness and then to transform it.

I didn't want to feel such love for someone else. I still wanted to be the object of that tidal wave.

You say you love your wife. You depend on her; she has given you her body, her emotions, her encouragement, a certain feeling of security and well-being. Then she turns away from you; she gets bored or goes off with someone else, and your whole emotional balance is destroyed, and this disturbance, which you don't like, is called jealousy. There is pain in it, anxiety, hate and violence. So what you are really saying is, 'As long as you belong to me I love you but the moment you don't I begin to hate you.

Possessiveness isn’t love. I’m not even sure it qualifies as an emotion.

Jealousy fuses megalomania and self-abandonment.

Am I jealous? he thought, astonished. Jealous of the chance object to which she has attached herself? Jealous of something that does not concern me? One can be jealous of a love that has turned away, but not of that to which it has turned.

Jealousy clings to love's underside like bats to a bridge.

Jealousy is the forerunner of love, and often its awakener.

Jealousy takes root in the soil of insecurity.