possession

Preoccupy your mind more and more thinking of strategies, methods of attaining possession in all areas of your life__ endeavour.

Tangled onto the shuttle, we were being woven back and forth to create the same tapestry of despair and heartbreak and loss. It was so muchbigger than I could see before, and all I had done was stand at the centre of the web and feed it my anger and frustration and jealousy.

This is m-me._ I indicated the lonely track.__eally? What__ up there?_ He peered over my shoulder in genuine curiosity. __s there a house up there? You__e not a sylph or something that really does live wild, are you?

Oh r-really? Do t-tell?_ I quirked an eyebrow back at him.__ell, usually it__ best to take your shoes and socks off before you step in the stream, better balance on an uneven surface. Also, you avoid that unpleasant squelchy feeling when you wear the shoes again later._ He paused, smirking. __lso, if__ was going to paddle barefoot upstream in Yorkshire, I__ wait until at least May before I tried it. But you go ahead, love. You__e clearly a Spartan lass.

How did you get so scratched up then, Emlynn?_ He looked at me uncertainly again.I felt wildly like laughing. Too many swooping highs and plummeting lows. What a weird fewdays. Weird being a massive understatement.__r-Crawling through gorse bushes._ I took a perverse delight in answering his questions in a way that told him nothing at all. I__ never paid much attention to boys before. Maybe Grace was onto something after all.__rawling through gorse,_ he repeated. __art of your action-girl antics, no doubt?___-no doubt._ I smirked again.

Hey now, wait a second. When will I see you again? You can__ leave a poor lad dangling like that!__is look of bewilderment made me bite my lip to keep from laughing.__hy would you w-want to?_ The words were out before I could stop them. A rare occurrence for me. And now I seemed pathetically needy. Very attractive.__ecause I love a pair of pretty green eyes._ He grinned.

Dad looked more sheepish than I had ever seen him look in his life. It made him appear younger.__ scent. Your mother__ shampoo.

Maybe because I knew Haze and Kate so well by then the passage leapt out at me, clear and sharp as di

Oh r-really? Do t-tell?_ I quirked an eyebrow back at him.__ell, usually it__ best to take your shoes and socks off before you step in the stream, better balance on an uneven surface. Also, you avoid that unpleasant squelchy feeling when you wear the shoes againlater._ He paused, smirking. __lso, ifI was going to paddle barefoot __ was going to paddle barefoot upstream in Yorkshire, I__ wait until at least May before I tried it. But you go ahead, love. You__e clearly a Spartan lass.

Every time I had things straight in my head abouthim, I saw him smile or crook an eyebrow, and all my sensible reasons on why I couldn__ have feelings for him seemed redundant.

She made the beast rear its ugly head. Stirred fantasies in my mind I would have never otherwise entertained. Owning her wasn__ enough. Controlling her didn__ douse the inferno blazing inside me.

He spun round under her grip. She smelled so good, her touch so soft as she unhooked the buttons on his tunic. Pushing the shirt apart she frowned, her hands running over the thin scars through his tattoos. __nd you belong to him, too.

One man carries salvation and damnation from the desert.

His heart is the rhythm, mine is the echo.

If my heart is set on pursuing real treasures, my mind must be fixed solely on the privilege of enjoying them and freed of the obsession of owning them.

Softly, deftly, music shall caress you. Hear it, feel it, Secretly possess you.

It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession

Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.