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“Jealousy is like wood ants, it will nibble away, until there's nothing left.”

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“Did I mention really, really jealous.”

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Book:Persephone's Orchard

Source: Persephone's Orchard

“I’ve known him a long time. I admire him. Hell, I might even love him. He helped me when—well, he helped me, and I owe him. He never lies, never plays games. He always says what he means and means what he says. And he has made it clear you’re off-limits.”

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Book:The One You Want

Source: The One You Want

“I’m too old to worry about who likes me and who doesn’t. I have more important things to do. If you love me, great, I love you right back. If you support me, I support you too. If you hate me, I don’t care. I stopped worrying about popularity contests back in 9th grade. Life keeps rolling on with or without you, and I’m perfectly okay with that.”

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“Then his jealousy rejoiced at the discovery, as though that jealousy had had an independent existence, fiercely egotistical, gluttonous of every thing that would feed its vitality, even at the expense of Swann himself.”

Book:Swann’s Way

Source: Swann’s Way

“Beauty is more a danger than intelligence or wit. One becomes a living mirror for the inadequacies of others.”

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Book:The Chemickal Marriage

Source: The Chemickal Marriage

“His hope was like an intake of icy air—it hurt—and just as sharp and sudden was his jealousy. In an instant he was hot and cold with it, his hands clenching into fists so tight they burned. A flare of adrenaline coursed through him and left him shaking, and it wasn’t her. It wasn’t her, and for the fleeting flash of an instant, he felt relief. Followed by crushing disappointment and self-loathing for what his reaction had been.”

Book:Days of Blood & Starlight

Source: Days of Blood & Starlight

“There are apparently two hypotheses about jealousy: that it is a product of civilization and that it is a basic instinct of animals.”

Jealousy Hypotheses

Book:The Face of Another

Source: The Face of Another

“While some of us burned on the edges of life, insatiable and straining to see more deeply in, he sat complacently at the centre and let life come to him — so much of it, evidently, that he could not keep track of his appointments.”

Book:The Women Who Got Away

Source: The Women Who Got Away

“Success causes others to be jealous and hate.”

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Author:Sunday Adelaja

“Nixon didn't mellow with his success, he became embittered by it.”

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