Possession Quotes

“I think that certain levels of hate require so much commitment and motivation to nurture, that it's basically love.”
― Lauren Evers, Possession

“How do I accept what he’s saying? He is the center of it all; love is the center of it all. Without it, what holds me together?”
― Lauren Evers, Possession

“Some say Aris appeared out of nothing the first time something bad happened. Others argue that he's older than that and was just inspired by chaos and death. Did he make himself from the concept of evil, or is he why evil exists? I don't know...”
― Lauren Evers, Possession

“I am a toy, and I was taken away when he was in the middle of using me. Aris gets to decide when he’s done playing.”
― Lauren Evers, Possession

“I don’t feel fear, but I felt something… close when you left. You were there one moment and gone the next. I didn’t know where you were. I didn’t know what had happened. It was the first time that I lost something. I don’t like losing things.”
― Lauren Evers, Possession

“You have no one else, Aris says, not unkindly. I’m all you have, Mary. Haven’t you learned that by now?”
― Lauren Evers, Possession

“Mary is not weak!' Aris snaps.
I’m a little surprised, and he hisses, Only I’m allowed to talk to you like that!”
― Lauren Evers, Possession

“What does it matter why the cricket jumps? The nature of insects is of no interest.”
― Lauren Evers, Possession

“You belong to him, Mary.”
― Lauren Evers, Possession

“And what would your life have been without me? Pathetic and useless, the same as the rest of them.”
― Lauren Evers, Possession

“I feel something like a chrysalis, like the husk left behind. There's the thought that he won, in the only way he could ever truly win; he took me, became me, erased me. But, of course, that's impossible: I'm still here. So why do I feel like I'm less now?”
― Lauren Evers, Possession