Quotes About Obsession

We were locked onto each other as though we had just discovered this incredible thing you could do with two mouths pressing close and moist against each other. And the taste of him... Horrifyingly, unbearably sweet -- sweet in the way crack must feel hitting the bloodstream of an addict after years of staying clean.

I deliberately ignored the sight of lean brown body cutting through the aqua water, glistening powerful arms dipping slow and steady in perfect rhythm with the strong kick of his long tanned legs. I was going to have to work on my ignoring technique. - Tim trying to ignore Jack in the swimming pool.

There, long forgotten by me, were several glass-front cases loaded with books. I dropped the broom and approached slowly, my pulse quickening in excitement known only to book lovers in the advanced stage of addiction.

What the hell were the odds of attracting two stalkers within a year? Was it my aftershave?

It was love, though. Love, or some other, nameless feeling that was sister to it. I was racked with it. It thundered through me, shook my frame... This, I thought. This is how supervillains start.

The creation of the factory required exceptional ingenuity, obsession, and misery. We have inherited its miraculous productive power and long history of exploitation without giving it much thought.

two books besides the Koran. I'd noticed when heading beachward—copies are given away in the lobby for gratis. I want to hoard heaps of these, cairns and dolmens of these—I want to die in this facility wrapped in a rabbinic beard as quilly soft as this duvet so that when Security (dial 0) slams down the door I'll be buried under this monument: 1,001 Korans.

In the end, and done correctly, writing's just another pathology.

Writing is a consequence of having been 'haunted' by material. Why this is, no one knows.

Drama: an addiction of mine, maybe. To look at my history, at least, you would have had to consider that possibility.)

When we the moment her obsession took hold, to spare her children the pain of loss. As if any parent could do that. As if it would be a good thing, if she could...The best you could do was to raise your children in such a way that when trouble found them-- as it would--they'd be able to survive it.

When was the moment her obsession took hold, to spare her children the pain of loss. As if any parent could do that. As if it would be a good thing, if she could...The best you could do was to raise your children in such a way that when trouble found them-- as it would--they'd be able to survive it.

Siempre tuve miedo de dormir antes que ella, sin saber la causa. Aun adorándola, era algo así como dar la espalda a un enemigo. No podía soportar la idea de dormirme y dejarla a ella en la sombra, lúcida, absolutamente libre, viva aún

Cuando se le ocurría acostarse conmigo y la borrachera la obligaba a conversar, era como poseer a decenas de mujeres y saber de ellas.

At the end of my second year I understood something I'd been incubating for several months: that my law studies were of no interest or use to me whatsoever, for my only obsession was reading fiction and, finally, learning how to write it.

The only thing worse than constantly seeing what you can't have is constantly seeing what you must have.

Yey more and more there seemed a bevy of things she was not supposed to think about and by virtue of trying not to, she hardly thought of anything else.

It's astonishing what some women will put up with just to have a warm body. Some of the brightest women I know are just obsessed with that search. It's very sad.

Just one dance. Just one. That's all I wanted. I know now how you can take one step and you can't stop yourself from taking another. I know now what it means to want. I know it can get you to a place where there's no way out. I know now that there's no such thing as just one. But I didn't know it then.

Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.

Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.

Until I discovered cooking, I was never really interested in anything.

You cannot imagine the power you possess over me. With a look, a sign, a smile, you reduce me to nothing but hunger.

He was hungry, needy, and he kissed her as if he would die without her, as if she were his very food, his air, his body and soul.