#jealous

... but Charlie had seen love and prise flare in the brown eyes, burning away every trace of sadness and timidity. Rose Petch, she knew, would never abandon her child the way Charlie's mother had abandoned her. ... Charlie stood, trembling, torn nearly in two by jealousy and longing ... ↗

— Ellen Renner

#ellen-renner #jealousy

If I had a clone, he’d better be my equal, and not my better. Can you imagine how I’d feel being jealous of myself? ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#jealousy #change

Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#change #character #jealousy #nature #transformation

Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem. ↗

— Aaron Carter

#about #anything #being #commitment #get-go

He who is jealous, is never jealous of what you see, with what is imagined is enough. ↗

— Jacinto Benavente

#jealousy #imagination

Jealousy always trumps schadenfreude! It’s a rule from the heartbreak version of ‘rock, paper, scissors. ↗

— Julie Klausner

#jealousy #love #dating

she shall scant show well that now shows best. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#jealousy #funny

There is no greater glory than love, nor any great punishment than jealously. ↗

— Lope de Vega

#any #glory #great #greater #jealously

If the enemy of my enemy is my friend, then a friend of my enemy, is my enemy. ↗

— Pyreglide

#friendship #jealousy #friendship

The life of a plural wife, she'd found, was a life lived under constant comparison, a life spent wondering. Sitting across from her sister-wives at Sunday dinner, the platters and serving dishes floating past like hovercraft, the questions were almost inescapable; Who of us is the most happy? Which of us is his one true love? Who does he desire the most? ↗

— Brady Udall

#love #polygamy #the-lonely-polygamist #jealousy