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Quotes About Obsession

High King Cardan smiles down the table indulgently and yawns like a cat. His hair is messy, as though he did no more than finger-comb it since rising from my bed. Our eyes meet, and I am the one who looks away, my face hot. Kiss me until I am sick of it.
~ Holly Black
Most of all, I hate you because I think of you. Often. It's disgusting, and I can't stop." I am shocked into silence. "Maybe you should shoot me after all," he says, covering his face with one long-fingered hand.
~ Holly Black
I am forever undone by you
~ Holly Black
Most of all I hate you because I think of you often. It's disgusting and I can't stop. - Cardan Greenbriar, The Cruel Prince
~ Holly Black
Jude, Cardan thought, hating even the shape of her name. Jude.
~ Holly Black
Something is really wrong with me, to want what I hate, to want someone who despises me, even if he wants me, too. My only comfort is that he doesn't know what I feel.
~ Holly Black
Most of all, I hate you because I think of you. Often. It's disgusting, and I can't stop.
~ Holly Black
I still feel the warm pressure of his fingers against my skin. Something is really wrong with me, to want what i hate, to want someone who despises me, even if he wants me, too. My only comfort is that he doesn't know what i feel.
~ Holly Black
Lo odio più di chiunque altro. Lo odio talmente tanto che qualche volta, quando lo guardo, mi manca il respiro.
~ Holly Black
Most of all, I hate you because I think of you. Often. It's disgusting, and I can't stop.
~ Holly Black
Kiss me again," he says, drunk and foolish. "Kiss me until I am sick of it.
~ Holly Black
Mock me all you like. Whatever I imagined then, now it is I who would beg and grovel for a kind word from your lips." His eyes are black with desire. "By you, I am forever undone.
~ Holly Black
I'm in love with someone, & none of it will go away.The memories bombard me every day.The dreams haunt me every night.
~ Unknown
I was always obsessed with being famous. I had Marilyn Monroe paper dolls as a child, and I was always obsessed with her. I've just been really driven in that direction, and none of my friends were. So, I don't know what put that bug in me at a young age.
~ Holly Madison
If I'd had a man of my own, I'd have followed him . . . down to hell.
~ Honore de Balzac
I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me.
~ Honore de Balzac
in order not to make him a fixed idea, a regret, a struggle,—three things which poison life.
~ Honore de Balzac
Enfin, hormis le nombre des personnages, en remplaçant le loto par le whist, et en supprimant les figures de monsieur et de madame Grandet, la sc?ne, par laquelle commence cette histoire, était ? peu pr?s la m?me que par le passé. La meute poursuivait toujours Eugénie et ses millions; mais la meute plus nombreuse aboyait mieux, et cernait sa proie avec ensemble.
~ Honore de Balzac
As a people, we have become obsessed with Health. There is something fundamentally, radically unhealthy about all this. We do not seem to be seeking more exuberance in living as much as staving off failure, putting off dying. We have lost all confidence in the human body.
~ Lewis Thomas
Much of today's public anxiety about science is the apprehension that we may forever be overlooking the whole by an endless, obsessive preoccupation with the parts.
~ Lewis Thomas
It's because a woman's entire self-worth rests on her looks," said Jane. "That's why. It's because we live in a beauty-obsessed society where the most important thing a woman can do is make herself attractive to men.
~ Liane Moriarty
Helicopter parents. Before I started at Pirriwee Public, I thought it was an exaggeration, this thing about parents being overly involved with their kids. I mean, my mum and dad loved me, they were, like, interested in me when I was growing up in the nineties, but they weren't, like, obsessed with me.
~ Liane Moriarty
I don't get the obsession with strangers, her first husband, Sol, once said to her, and Frances had struggled to explain that strangers were by definition interesting. It was their strangeness. The not-knowing. Once you knew everything there was to know about someone, you were generally ready to divorce them.
~ Liane Moriarty
It's because we live in a beauty-obsessed society where the most important thing a woman can do is make herself attractive to men.
~ Liane Moriarty