Quotes About Obsession

Forbid a man something and he craves it like his soul's salvation, all the more so when that something is the source of incomparable riches.

She's in love, old devil! Do you hear? A girl will do crazy things for love. Just ask Estella -- she went to Hell for it!

Sarai [...] You have ruined my tongue for all other tastes!

She'll be an excellent novelist: a monster of self-absorption.

This is undoubtedly true. Yet there remains one central question about Katherine, separate from the ring and even from the money. "Why won't she let you go?

There's a rule they don't teach you at the Harvard Business School. It is, if anything is worth doing, it's worth doing to excess.

I keep thinking about blood, I dream about it. Wake up thinking about it. Pretty soon I'll be writing morbid emo poetry about it.

I never cared," he said. "I wanted you anyway. I always wanted you.

Oh, I can never get enough. Which, incidentally, is what your sister said when--

He'd burn the whole world down til he could dig out you of the ashes.

Unrequited love is a ridiculous state, and it makes those in it behave ridiculously.

The funny thing about mundies is how obsessed with magic they are for a bunch of people who don't even know what the word means.

Why all these paintings of you? Because I'm an artist, Emma. These pictures are my heart. And if my heart was a canvas, every square inch of it would be painted over with you.

They're still looking at him.... At Will..." "Of course they are.... Look at him. The face of a bad angel and eyes like the night sky in Hell.

You're all he ever wants.

I've never seen anyone get so excited over books before. You'd think they were diamonds.

I loved you recklessly from the moment I knew you. I never cared about the consequences. I told myself I did, I told myself you wanted me to, and so I tried, but I never did. I wanted you more than I wanted to be good. I wanted you more than I wanted anything, ever.

To love something is to destroy it forever.

wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness

Jace is in love with the idea of dying," said Isabelle.

She gritted her teeth. She was here with Sebastian, on her way to see a powerful warlock, and mentally she was maundering on about the way Jace smelled.

Against his own will, almost, Will felt himself understanding; he would have done anything, he thought, told any lie, taken any risk, to make Tessa love him.

After all, it was never Darnay he quoted, only Sydney, drunk and wrecked and dissipated. Sydney, who died for love.

Admiring yourself?" The Inquisitor's voice but through his reverie. "You wont look so pretty when the Clave gets through with you." "You do seem obsessed with my looks." Jace turned away from the mirror with some relief. "Could it be that all this is because you're attracted to me?