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Quotes About Obsession

When you love something you just don't want to stop talking about it.
~ Neil Gaiman
I'm obsessed with the human psyche. I want to understand. I want to ask myself if I have it inside me.
~ Noomi Rapace
You forgot the 'my precious,'" Anna said dryly. "If you want to act like a freaking nutcase, you have to do it right.
~ Patricia Briggs
I also had a huge crush on William Holden. I would go to see William Holden's movies alone - I didn't want to be with anybody. I just wanted to be with him.
~ Polly Allen Mellen
Sydney: Ever had that happen? Once you can't have something, you want it that much more." Adrian: "Yes. It happens all the time.
~ Richelle Mead
You get what you want and you become its slave.
~ Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land
He doth nothing but talk of his horses.
~ William Shakespeare
I find I like it too much.
~ Stonewall Jackson
I loved moustaches. I used to draw myself with one. When I was 14, I was really into war and Van Gogh.
~ Billy Childish
I am a closet toy freak. I started chasing after some things as far as Star Wars toys - some very rare stuff.
~ Rick Springfield
I'm serious—I'm whacked. Running around my entire adult life claiming to be in love with a stranger. If I had a friend like me, I would take her to the nearest hospital and make sure they strapped her down. Why haven't you ever done that?
~ Susan Donovan
And he did it. Dammit, he couldn't stop himself. His eyes traveled up to the bronze sea hag, the source of hundreds of years of ridiculousness.
~ Susan Donovan
Okay, so I'll admit I'm curious. Big deal. We both know what that leads to. Dead cat.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Las mujeres anhelan lo que no pueden tener, incluso aunque no sea bueno para ellas. —¿Es
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Your body, Lilly… don't you see? This is the body that gave birth to the human race." His words ran counter to everything that the world she lived in preached. Diets. Denial. An obsession with female bone instead of female flesh. The culture of youth and thinness. Of stinginess. Of disfigurement. Of fear.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Las mujeres anhelan lo que no pueden tener, incluso aunque no sea bueno para ellas.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
He should have left long ago. He actually did once – or nearly did, but Zelda pulled him back. Not that he needed any persuasion with her warm, welcoming body the ultimate Nirvana and his libido operating within the very narrow range of sex, sex, and more sex.
~ Susan Johnson
Boy poison - a boy's kisses were like a poison, which infected you and after you were exposed you craved more, like an addict.
~ Susan Minot
There will always be vain, obsessive people who want to own rare and extraordinary things whatever the cost there will always be people for whom owning beautiful, dangerous animals brings a sense of power and magic.
~ Susan Orlean
Orchid hunting is a mortal occupation.
~ Susan Orlean
It's not really about collecting the thing itself," Laroche went on. "It's about getting immersed in something, and learning about it, and having it become part of your life. It's a kind of direction." He stopped on the word "direction" and chortled. "If anybody had a plant I didn't have, I made sure to get it. It was like a heroin addiction. If I ever had money I would spend it on plants.
~ Susan Orlean
Quoting Althea Warren, librarians should "read as a drunkard drinks, or as a bird sings or a cat sleeps or a dog responds to an invitation to go walking, not from conscience or training, but because they'd rather do it than anything else in the world.
~ Susan Orlean
As she said in a speech to a library association in 1935, librarians should "read as a drunkard drinks or as a bird sings or a cat sleeps or a dog responds to an invitation to go walking, not from conscience or training, but because they'd rather do it than anything else in the world.
~ Susan Orlean
To desire orchids is to have a desire that will never be, can never be, fully requited. A collector who wants one of every orchid species on earth will certainly die before even coming close.
~ Susan Orlean