#posses

I dunno." She sat on the bench and hugged the robe like a pillow. "I still think that Brett guy is cute." "Good luck getting him away from Bekka." Cleo gathered her silky black hair into a high pony and pink-dabbed Smith's Rosebud Salve on her lips. "She's got more grip than Crazy Glue." "More cling than Saran Wrap," Lala added. "More hold than Final Net." Cleo giggled. "More possession than The Exorcist," Lala managed. "More clench than butt cheeks," Blue chimed in. "More competition than American Idol," Frankie stuck out her chest and showed them her diva booty roll. The girls burst out laughing. "Nice!" Blue lifted her purple gloved hand. Frankie slapped it without a single spark. "I hate to be a downer..." Claudine shuffled back into the conversation wearing her slippers and robe. "But that girl will destroy you if she catches you with Brett." "I'm not worried," Frankie tossed her hair back. "I've seen all the teen movies, and the nice girl gets the boy in the end. ↗

— Lisi Harrison

#girl-bonding #girlfriend #jealousy #other-girls-boyfriends #possessiveness

When someone says "I Love You," it is imperative that you know if you are loved for "WHAT you are" or "WHO you are." When the academic qualifications, professionals, positions, possessions, good look, fat bank accounts and all that has been acquired over the years are taken away, all that is left is "Who you are" - Your Personality (character, values, perceptions.) "We are never truly loved, until we are loved for WHO and not WHAT we are ↗

— Olaotan Fawehinmi

#good-look #i-love-you #love #olaotan-fawehinmi #perceptions

Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it. ↗

— John Lennon

#everybody #only #own #people #possession

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment. ↗

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

#enjoyment #getting #grants #greatest #knowledge

The United States have no possessions in the east and do not desire to have any, as other countries do. ↗

— Townsend Harris

#countries #desire #east #other #other countries

The real duty of man is not to extend his power or multiply his wealth beyond his needs, but to enrich and enjoy his imperishable possession: his soul. ↗

— Gilbert Highet

#duty #enjoy #enrich #extend #his

God saw fit, for wise reasons to allow the people of Israel thus to make and possess slaves; but is this any license to us to enslave any of our fellow-men, to kill any of our fellow-men whom we please and are able to destroy, and take possession of their estates? ↗

— Samuel Hopkins

#allow #any #destroy #enslave #estates

Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions. ↗

— Stefan Kanfer

#away #cannot #explained #grief #life

I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute. ↗

— John Keats

#brood #could #death #hour #i

I do not gather things, I prefer to rent them rather than to possess them. ↗

— Jerzy Kosinski

#i #i do #possess #prefer #rather