Dispossessing Quotes & Sayings

That girl still owned his heart. All the bullshit aside, he wanted Isabelle back in his life. But it was too late. She had a man, and all Jericho had was his guitar. That's all he'd ever wanted, and that's exactly what he ended up with.
Dark, Dannika (2014-07-27). Five Weeks (Seven Series #3) (p. 93). Kindle Edition. — Dannika Dark

If Christ has once possessed the affections, there is no dispossessing of him again. A fire in the heart overcomes all fires without. — Richard Sibbes

Anastasia," I say, in good-bye. "Christian," she answers, her voice soft. — E.L. James

We love our pain. We love our drama. But we will never, ever admit that. — Chuck Palahniuk

Let me be clear. Last I was aware you were neither my husband nor my father nor my King. Therefore, any control you may imagine you hold over me is just that- imaginary — Sarah MacLean

I never used to understand why people bothered to hold hands as they walked, but then he runs one of his fingertips down my palm, and I shiver and understand it completely — Veronica Roth

I mean . . . I don't know. I don't know what I want to do, or who I want to be, or where I want to live. I don't know. I like reading about adventure, sure, but I also like doing it from the safety of home. But what is home, besides a quilt-covered bed? Where is it? — Stephanie Perkins

Americans hold that every problem has a solution; Chinese think that each solution is an admission ticket to a new set of problems. — Henry Kissinger

Transforming his body was only one step in the psychological struggle against what Teedie shamefully considered his "timid" nature. "There were all kinds of things of which I was afraid at first," he acknowledged, "but by acting as if I was not afraid I gradually ceased to be afraid." As a childhood friend observed, "by constantly forcing himself to do the difficult or even dangerous thing," he was able to cultivate courage as "a matter of habit, in the sense of repeated effort and repeated exercise of will-power. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

Possessing a language meant possessing the world expressed in its words. Dispossessing it meant nothing less than the loss of a world and the beginning of bewilderment forever. "Language is the only homeland," said poet Czeslaw Milosz. My parents left the world that created them and now would be beginners for the rest of their lives, mumblers searching for the right word, the proper phrase that approximated what they felt inside. I wonder at the eloquence that must have lived inside them that never found a way out. — Alex Tizon

what would it be like if I could, if I were free — Aldous Huxley