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For a second I was almost jealous of the clouds. Why was he looking to them for an escape when I was right here beside him?


Kamila Shamsie


#escape #jealousy #jealousy

With his current mood, Elizabeth realized, she was going to have to make her own opening. Lifting her eyes to his enigmatic golden ones, she said quietly, “Ian, have you ever wanted something very badly-something that was within your grasp-and yet you were afraid to reach out for it?” Surprised by her grave question and her use of his name, Ian tried to ignore the jealousy that had been eating at him all night. “No,” he said, scrupulously keeping the curtness from his voice as he gazed down at her alluring face. “Why do you ask? Is there something you want?” Her gaze fell from his, and she nodded at his frilled white shirtfront. “What is it you want?” “You.


Judith McNaught


#elizabeth #ian #love #jealousy

Flailing and thrashing, Buttercup wept and tossed and paced and wept some more, and there have been three great cases of jealousy since David of Galilee was first afflicted with the emotion when he could no longer stand the fact that his neighbor Saul's cactus outshone his own. (Originally, jealousy pertained solely to plants, other people's cactus or ginkgoes, or, later, when there was grass, grass, which is why, even to this day, we say that someone is green with jealousy.) Buttercup's case rated a close fourth on the all-time list. It was a very long and very green night.


William Goldman


#jealousy

Jealousy is love in competition.


Toba Beta


#jealousy #love #jealousy

Fear can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy... fear makes you always, always hold something back.


Philip K. Dick


#jealousy

The biggest mistake you can ever make it to compare yourself to others. - Gideon


Jacquelyn Frank


#jealousy #mistake #jealousy

Instead of playing to win, I was playing not to lose. It reminds me of the story I once heard about two friends being chased by a bear, when one turned to the other and said, "I just realized that I don't need to outrun the bear; I only need to outrun you.


Sean Covey


#competition #jealousy #jealousy

Why? Why would you do that?” "You have your way of dealing with jealousy and I have mine.


Sylvia Day


#gideon-cross #jealousy

Animals don't know as much about jealousy as people, but they're not ignorant of it, either.


Stephen King


#jealousy #jealousy

If the rest of them can survive only by destroying us, then why should we wish them to survive? . . . Nothing can make it moral to destroy the best. One can't be punished for being good. One can't be penalized for ability.


Ayn Rand


#parasitism #rand #jealousy






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