For you was I born, for you do I have life, for you will I die, for you am I now dying.

I needed them, sure, and we can all argue about the moment when the balance tipped and I needed them so much that I would hurt. But you can’t pretend they didn’t need me too,...

The thought of her gave me such a continual anguish that I could no more forget her than an aching tooth. It was involuntary, hopeless, compulsive. For years she had been the first thing I...

Numbers are the only things you can trust in this life, Kerstin; they will keep you sane.’Summer Lies Bleeding

Cure for an obsession: get another one.

We need repentance. You see, repentance is not only going to a priest and confessing. We must free ourselves from the obsession of thoughts. We fall many times during our life, and it is absolutely...

It looks like you’re mocking me as if I am a girl who still believes in Santa Claus.” Emily says.

and I looked and looked at her, and knew as clearly as I know I am to die, that I loved her more than anything I had ever seen or imagined on earth, or hoped...

Two words from him, and I had seen my pouting apathy change into I’ll play anything for you till you ask me to stop, till it’s time for lunch, till the skin on my fingers...

She hates everything that is not what she longs for.

Follow the ideal doing,grind the beans just before brewing.Use spring water,for softened water,makes a horror.A parley perfect,between the coffee,and the milk,with some,brown sugar thick.” (Poem: An apology of a coffee lunatic, Book: Ginger and Honey)

Once you start recognizing your own obsessions, you know you’re getting old.

My whole life was about her, what if her whole life wasn’t all about me?

Each night I lie and dream about the oneWho kissed me and awakened my desireI spent a single hour with him aloneAnd since that hour, my days are layed with fire.

The knives of jealousy are honed on details.

All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.

I love you so much that nothing can matter to me – not even you…Only my love- not your answer. Not even your indifference

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

I have this obsession with really cool, old books.

Nothing and no one had ever belonged to him and only him—except Legion. Not that she would do anything necessary to save him, nor would he do anything necessary to save her. But. Yeah, there...

Some thoughts are too angry to sleep. They lie awake all night and become obsessions.

All good research-whether for science or for a book-is a form of obsession.

Life is obsession and so is reading 😀

You become what you think about all day long.

Doing something once can be addicting. Doing it twice is admitting it.

It’s the journey not the resolution that matters. If he caught her, he would lie down next to her and die too.

There have been times I’ve felt so much art in my soul I grew sick of artists.

We are the wilderness withinScreaming out for true expression.Even when we’re sleeping,There’s no escape from this obsession.

I was deluded, and I knew it. Worse: my love for Pippa was muddied-up below the waterline with my mother, with my mother’s death, with losing my mother and not being able to get her...

Lane, I will become attached to you. It happens with everyone. Something about my personality makes me latch on to people. First, it was my friend Tina, then Liam, and now you. I’m sorry, but...

Never in my life had I been more frustrated. Go figure it wouldn’t be with a human but a freaking alien. At least I now knew that the male species were asses no matter what...

I was told I have obsessive behavioral traits. I looked up everything to do with obsession after that.

I just think that ‘dating’ is an engagement and not ‘fun’.” Emily says.

Somewhere between love and hate lies confusion, misunderstanding and desperate hope.

Sylvia Plath is there for me when actual living people upon who I have depended upon my whole life, are not. What I mean to say is, without her words, I’d be exponentially more messed...

Anything that inspires addiction or obsession – substances, entertainment, beauty, secrecy – is dangerous in that it can lead to isolation, self-absorption, and disconnection, to paralyzed stasis: an immobility that gathers like a force.

Color is my daylong obsession, joy, and torment.

A hyphen can bring you from nowhere to now-here. That hyphen is will-power, in fact.

El cuento requiere una reducción del campo narrativo análoga al estrechamiento de conciencia que acompaña a las ideas fijas. En cierto modo, el cuentista procede como un obseso.

Sex: In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact.

Marie, let’s suppose that two firemen go into a forest to put out a small fire. Afterwards, when they emerge and go over to a stream, the face of one is all smeared with black,...

I want her to melt into me, like butter on toast. I want to absorb her and walk around for the rest of my days with her encased in my skin.I want.

I have an obsession with details and pattern.

The love object occupies the thoughts of the person diagnosed as ‘in love’ all the time despite the probability that very little is actually known about it. To it are ascribed all qualities considered by...

Here’s a haiku/palindrome I wrote called, “Obsession.”Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob,Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob,Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob

Enemies are the people who think about you more than your friends do.

Writing begins as a solitary obsession and ends up as communication.

It is easy to identify a shallow person by the attention he gives to what will do him absolutely no good.

He really would have done all that for her, you see, and done it believing he’d burn in hell forever for doing it. He hadn’t done it, and wouldn’t had made her his anyway, but...

The world was collapsing, and the only thing that really mattered to me was that she was alive.