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• If she know how strongly he felt, she'd have run out the door. He wasn't used to the possessive, or the savage joy she brought to his heart. It ate at his control, so he turned his attention to the music. He understood music.

  Patricia Briggs

  Running, Heart, Doors

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• I'm very emotional and possessive about all my films.

  Anurag Kashyap

  Emotional, Film

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• You’re not the only one who can get possessive. I’m very proprietary about what’s mine.

  Sylvia Day

  Mines

  Sylvia Day (2013). “The Crossfire Series Books 1-3 by Sylvia Day”, p.101, Penguin

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• Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud.

  Yann Martel

  Life, Beautiful, Jealous

  Yann Martel, Canongate Books (2007). “Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition”, p.21, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• He'd been so angry at her -always pushing his buttons, that girl. But then he'd taken her into his arms, and all that anger had blazed into a darker, hotly possessive need that had urged him to bend his head, bite down on the throbbing pulse in her neck, leave a mark.

  Nalini Singh

  Girl, Taken, Buttons

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• Mosca and Saracen shared, if not a friendship, at least the solidarity of the generally despised. Mosca assumed that Saracen had his reasons for his persecution of terriers and his possessive love of the malthouse roof. In turn, when Mosca had interrupted Saracen’s self-important nightly patrol and scooped him up, Saracen had assumed that she too had her reasons.

  Frances Hardinge

  Self, Important, Reason

  Frances Hardinge (2011). “Fly By Night”, p.15, Pan Macmillan

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• Can the plural possessive express the feelings in your heart? If you don't learn art now, you will never learn to breathe!

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Art, Feelings, Breathe

  Laurie Halse Anderson (1999). “Speak”, Puffin

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• To those who care about punctuation, a sentence such as "Thank God its Friday" (without the apostrophe) rouses feelings not only of despair but of violence. The confusion of the possessive "its" (no apostrophe) with the contractive "it's" (with apostrophe) is an unequivocal signal of illiteracy and sets off a Pavlovian "kill" response in the average stickler.

  Lynne Truss

  Friday, Writing, Average

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• They found the corpse in the closet of Alcide's apartment, and they hatched a plan to hide his remains." Eric sounded like that had been kind of cute of us. "My Sookie hid a corpse?" "I don't think you can be too sure about that possessive pronoun." "Where did you learn that term, Northman?" "I took 'English as a Second Language' at a community college in the seventies.

  Charlaine Harris

  Cute, College, Thinking

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set”, p.737, Penguin

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• I'm not possessive, I'm caring... Once you realize a person doesn't want that much care, you automatically back off.

  Salman Khan

  Caring, Care, Want

  YouTube Chanel "zoom"/ "Salman Khan's Exclusive Interview with zoOm", www.youtube.com. August 23, 2011.

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• Dain kept his gaze on his plate and concentrated on swallowing the morsel he'd just very nearly choked on. She was possessive... about him. The beautiful, mad creature - or blind and deaf creature, or whatever she was - coolly announced it as one might say, "Pass the salt cellar," without the smallest awareness that the earth had just tilted on its axis.

  Loretta Chase

  Beautiful, Axes, Mad

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• Vampires. They wrote the book on possessive.

  Charlaine Harris

  Book, Vampire

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set”, p.939, Penguin

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• A man doesn't wasnt to feel that a woman cares more for him than he cares for her. He doesn't want to feel owned, body and soul. It's that damned possessive attitude. This man is mine---he belongs to me! He wants to get away --- to get free. He wants to own his woman; he doesn't want her to own him.(Simon Boyle)

  Agatha Christie

  Attitude, Men, Soul

  Agatha Christie (1984). “Five complete Hercule Poirot novels”, Random House Value Pub

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• Books can be possessive, can't they? You're walking around in a bookstore and a certain one will jump out at you, like it had moved there on its own, just to get your attention. Sometimes what's inside will change your life, but sometimes you don't even have to read it. Sometimes it's a comfort just to have a book around. Many of these books haven't even had their spines cracked. 'Why do you buy books you don't even read?' our daughter asks us. That's like asking someone who lives alone why they bought a cat. For company, of course.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Daughter, Book, Cat

  Sarah Addison Allen (2008). “The Sugar Queen”, p.180, Bantam

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• I am reminded of a story of Lord Krishna when he was a cowherd. Every night he invites the milkmaids to dance with him in the forest. They come and they dance. The night is dark, the fire in their midst roars and crackles, the beat of the music gets ever faster - the girls dance and dance and dance with their sweet lord, who has made himself so abundant as to be in the arms of each and every girl. But the moment the girls become possessive, the moment each one imagines that Krishna is her partner alone, he vanishes. So it is that we should not be jealous of God.

  Yann Martel

  Girl, Sweet, Jealous

  Yann Martel (2012). “Life Of Pi, Illustrated”, p.80, Canongate Books

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• Too much excitement, Your Majesty?” I asked. “He was standing too close.” “He was asking about Andrea.” “Too close. I didn’t like it.” Curran wrapped his arm around my shoulders and started walking, steering me away from the group. His Possessive Majesty in all of his glory.

  Ilona Andrews

  Asking, Arms, Majesty

  Ilona Andrews (2011). “Magic Slays”, p.229, Penguin

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• My family helped start [this country], we've been in political life ... since the 1690s, and I have a very possessive sense about this country.

  Gore Vidal

  Country, Political, My Family

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• In the US, what passes for Christianity - and it is, to say the least, a highly perverse, possessive individualist and capitalist version of what I would see as Christ's messianic ethical communism, to say the least - is a new civil religion, a civil religion of freedom.

  Simon Critchley

  Christianity, Communism, Ethical

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• Sisterhood means if you happen to be in Burma and I happen to be in San Diego and I'm married to someone who is very jealous and you're married to somebody who is very possessive, if you call me in the middle of the night, I have to come.

  Maya Angelou

  Jealous, Mean, Night

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• Can't you fall in love and not have a possessive relationship? I love someone and she loves me and we get married - that is all perfectly straightforward and simple, in that there is no
  conflict at all.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Falling In Love, Simple, Married

  "Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Bulletin 3", 1969.

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• If we do not begin to practice the muscles of having a possessive investment in each other's oppressions, then we are in some serious trouble.

  Junot Diaz

  Practice, Serious, Oppression

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• I am Moody... and a Cancerian to the boot. Even a small thing can change the entire mood, but I'm working on that. Besides, I'm also loyal and possessive.

  Katrina Kaif

  Boots, Loyal, Mood

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• Possessive parents rarely live long enough to see the fruits of their selfishness.

  Alan Garner

  Family, Long, Parent

  Alan Garner (2013). “The Owl Service”, p.6, HarperCollins UK

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• I want to sympathize, I do, but the love triangle is just too delicious. The determined rock star and the possessive billionaire. Rawr.

  Sylvia Day

  Stars, Rocks, Triangles

  Sylvia Day (2013). “The Crossfire Series Books 1-3 by Sylvia Day”, p.437, Penguin

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• Giving presents is one of the most possessive things we do, did you realize that? It's the way we keep a hold on other people. Plant ourselves in their lives.

  Penelope Lively

  People, Giving, Way

  Penelope Lively (2007). “Moon Tiger”, p.90, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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