#jealous

Shane looked faintly injured. “I make it my business to know everything about silver. And I saw your notes. I study up on everything when it comes to your boss, anyway.” There was a flicker of jealousy about that, but she didn’t have time, or energy, to consider it very much. Not even whether or not she liked it. ↗

— Rachel Caine

#shane-collins #business

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

— Toni Morrison

#jealousy #love #ownership #freedom

YOU CAN TRUST YOUR LOVE ONE, BUT NOT EVERYONE AROUND THEM. ↗

— Marlon Roxas

#love #relationship #trust #jealousy

His veins were dark with a vivid belladonna tincture, the essence of jealousy. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#jealousy #villette #jealousy

I couldn't look at her. I'd been jealous and hurt, and I had dragged Liv into the middle of my own broken mess of a life. All because I thought Lena didn't love me anymore. But I was stupid, and I was wrong. Lena loved me so much, she was willing to risk everything to save me. I had given up on Lena, after she had refused to give up on me. I owed her my life. It was as simple as that. ↗

— Kami Garcia

#give-up #hurt #jealous #love #middle

Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude. ↗

— Aphra Behn

#capable #consuming #health #more #nothing

Let your playerhaters be your motivators. ↗

— Alberta Parish

#motivation #playerhaters #motivational

What we used to say was whoever had the bow tie got to lead the band. There was never any jealousy. ↗

— Pete Fountain

#band #bow #got #had #jealousy

There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard. ↗

— Washington Irving

#never #regard #strong #where

That should have been my strategy! By the time I’ve worked through the emotions of surprise, admiration, anger, jealousy, and frustration, I’m watching that reddish mane of hair disappear into the trees well out of shooting range. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#anger #frustration #jealousy #strategy #surprise