Love Is Not Possessive Quotes

#1. I've learned that love is not possessive and I've learned that love won't wait. Now I've learned that love needs expression, but I learned too late.

Michael Jackson

#2. Can't you fall in love and not have a possessive relationship? I love someone and she loves me and we get married - that is all perfectly straightforward and simple, in that there is no
conflict at all.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#3. Mine. The language of love is like that, possessive. That should be the first warning that it's not going to encourage anyone's betterment.

Holly Black

#4. Dorian?"
"Yeah?:
"I want my mummy in our web."
Dorian's heart kicked in his chest. "She will be." It was the one thing he wouldn't compromise on. And if that made him animal in his possessiveness, so be it.

Nalini Singh

#5. He couldn't stay if she wasn't his to claim, to trust, to love. No matter how much Chris wanted to stay, Rosa Cortez was his last link to humanity. He wouldn't settle again.

Ellen Connor

#6. I know I had no right to do this to you, but if you ask me if I regret it, I will answer you no. If you ask me if I'd do it again, I'd say yes. I would do it again and again and again. There is a darkness in me that lives and breathes just like yours, except it's motivated by love, and not by pain.

Angela Richardson

#7. I want to sympathize, I do, but the love triangle is just too delicious. The determined rock star and the possessive billionaire. Rawr.

Sylvia Day

#8. You're fucking special and if I want to act all possessive over you when some stupid art guy hits on you right in front of me, I'm going to. Either that or I'm going to have Ethan chase him down right now so I can punch him in the face.

Jessica Sorensen

#9. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud ...

Yann Martel

#10. I love you," he said, and he kissed me again. Feral. Possessive. I gasped out, "I love you too.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#11. I've told you before, I love like a madman," he said. "Immoderate, jealous, possessive ... I'm absolutely intolerable.

Lisa Kleypas

#12. A tear streaked down her face. I love you.
You're mine.
She laughed at the possessive tone. I've always been yours ...

Nalini Singh

#13. What if we didn't all grow up hearing that true love is obsessive and possessive? What if, like the Mosuo, we revered the dignity and autonomy of those we loved? What if, in other words, sex, love, and economic security were as available to us as they were to our ancestors?

Christopher Ryan

#14. For the possession of what we love is an even greater joy than love itself.

Marcel Proust

#15. If she know how strongly he felt, she'd have run out the door. He wasn't used to the possessive, or the savage joy she brought to his heart. It ate at his control, so he turned his attention to the music. He understood music.

Patricia Briggs

#16. The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity; it's envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can.

Yann Martel

#17. It is essential that our love be liberating, not possessive. We must at all times give those we love the freedom to be themselves. Love affirms the other as other. It does not possess and manipulate another as mine.

John Powell

#18. You completely redefine my idea of what love is and should be. That it needn't be possessive, volatile or detrimental to your well-being, but can be selfless, gentle and consistent -- and should empower you to pursue your passions. That it should balance and enrich a life, not tear it to pieces.

Beau Taplin