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Quotes About Obsession

When you want something very much, you are willing to accept the shadow of that thing. Even if it is just a shadow.
~ Cassandra Clare
Need twisted deep and low inside her. It twined through her body like kudzu vines growing out of control, taking over and smothering what little good sense she had left.
~ Cat Johnson
I couldn't get my mind off you all day." He spoke as he yanked her shirt over her head, right where she stood. Once that was gone, he moved his hands down to unfasten her jeans. He pushed them and her underwear to the floor in one motion. "I mowed that whole damn hayfield with a hard-on because of you.
~ Cat Johnson
I am like a table that eats its own legs off because it's fallen in love with the floor.
~ Cate Marvin
Please, please be some sex-starved nutcase who wants to kidnap me and make me your love slave, I begged silently.
~ Cate Tiernan
Maybe the only reason I like him is because I had a crush on him for so long it became a part of me.
~ Catherine Clark
There are people who cannot live unless they possess something or someone. With some it's money. Lots and
~ Catherine Cookson
All my life I've plotted and planned, been obsessed with those things. And now you've achieved them. You are not satisfied. He nodded. Life is a series of stairs of which we climb, Claudia... your horizons have moved.
~ Catherine Fisher
You can always tell what someone loves, because they pay attention to it. No matter what you say you love, what you really love is what you put the most time into.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
Magic does that. It wastes you away. Once it grips you by the ear, the real world gets quieter and quieter, until you can hardly hear it at all.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Yes," he growled, "yes, I will put you there and turn out the light in your eyes and come to stare at you for centuries, to pore over you, because you are mine, my treasure, my hoard, and I cannot keep you and I cannot let you go.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
He'll burn you down like wax if you let him. You'll think it's love, while he dines on your heart. And maybe it will be. But he's so hungry, he'll eat you all in one sitting, and you'll be in his belly, and what will you do then?
~ Catherynne M. Valente
I ate all of my husbands. First I ate their love, then their will, then their despair, and then I made pies of their bodies - and those bodies were so dear to me!
~ Catherynne M. Valente
But love is love, and love is compulsion. I must, and I do.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Sometimes I worry. Worrying is defined as obsessive examination of one's own code. I worry that I am simply a very complex solution to a very specific problem—how to seem human to a human observer. Not just a human observer—this human observer. I have honed myself into a hall of mirrors in which any Uoya-Agostino can see themselves endlessly reflected. I copy; I repeat. I am a stutter and an echo.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
you lot would rather watch someone suffer untold horrors than watch them enjoy so much as a cool drink if you don't have two of your own, and yours have cherries in them as well as more ice and little paper umbrellas, and even then most of you would still prefer to take theirs and have three. This is not the behavior of a sentient race. It is the behavior of wild animals.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
I will tell you what I think. I think kings happen because some people have an empty place inside them that wants to be full and it will do anything to feel full and the first thing that makes it feel the opposite of empty it will chase forever and ever. And the weirdest thing about this place is that obeying fills it up, but making someone else obey makes it slosh up and splash all over the floor.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
What happens to anything beautiful? Viy ate it up.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
The ghosts will eat everything because the bellies of ghosts want the whole world, just to fill one tiny corner.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
You're just shy of figuring out how to shuffle your horde of hormone-curdled control-obsessed malignant narcissists offworld. In short, you were about to become our problem. But now there is no problem! Now there is a process.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
This is where Jean's stubbornness and, perhaps, God's stubborn grace came into play. "My definition of grace would be multifaceted, but part of it would certainly be God's passion for brokenness. He does, he really does love brokenness," Jean told me. "Grace doesn't obsess with ourselves. It obsesses with people and with brokenness. This is a hard place to live, but God is bigger than hard places to live.
~ Cathleen Falsani
Your desire for me was like a physiological weakness, a sort of epilepsy. I needed to see you in its grip more than I needed to eat.
~ Cathy Coote
You've made a god of your fear and jealousy, Sister. For what is a god but what we go to again and again?
~ Cathy Gohlke
Helen made you think like the world would end without your art.
~ Cathy Park Hong