Quotes About Obsession

She was the only girl he had ever loved. It ended abruptly when she ditched him for a football player. He carried the wounds for six years until he caught her and killed her. Only then had his pain suddenly vanished, his broken heart was healed. The score was even.

fierce obsession with anything, and especially something as traumatic as a murder, was not healthy. Denise and Alfred had discussed it over the years, but not recently. They worried about Jeri, though they could do nothing to change her.

she enjoyed reveling in her misery. She

Greed is a strange animal

He felt like his victims were now crawling out of their graves and lining up, zombie-like, to come after him. He was living in a state of stunned disbelief, his thoughts a mush of rampant flashes, his debates raging over strategies that changed by the hour.

She had read somewhere that we often grow to admire, even love, the very thing we so obsessively hate. It can become a part of our life, and we grow to rely on it, to need it. It defines us

All I care about in this goddamn life are me, my drums, and you.

Good habits are worth being fanatical about.

What is this fascination the world has with death?

No matter what my fucking last words were, please say they were these: 'I have always known that the pursuit of excellence is a lethal habit.

What the hell is the matter with Eddie? Ruth was thinking. If he doesn't stop staring at me, I'm going to drive off the road! Hannah had also noticed that Eddie was staring at Ruth. What the hell is the matter with Eddie? Hannah was thinking. Since when did the asshole take an interest in a younger woman?

And you wouldn't want to bring her home—at least not to entertain your guests or amuse the children. No, Juan Diego thought—you would want to keep her, all for yourself.

From that moment on, he would never stop seeing her, not in his minds eye - not whenever he closed his eyes and tried to sleep. She would always be there.

Homer Wells non si sentiva in salvo. Chi mai, innamorato e insoddisfatto per come il suo amore è ricambiato, chi mai si sente in salvo? Al contrario, Homer Wells si sentiva preso di mira e perseguitato in modo speciale.

Tell your mom he said, 'Sibelius.' It's all he thinks about. I mean going there," she added.

Melville's Moby-Dick—

As could be seen by the fate of the man who could only walk on his hands, Garp had a thing about escalators.

After twenty years in Canada, there are certain American lunatics who still fascinate me.

I never was in love - yet the voice and the shape of a woman has haunted me these two days.

You are to me an object so intensely desirable that the air I breathe in a room empty of you is unhealthy

My love has made me selfish. I cannot exist without you. I am forgetful of everything but seeing you again -- my Life seems to stop there -- I see no further. You have absorb'd me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I was dissolving -- I should be exquisitely miserable without the hope of soon seeing you.

Yet can I think of thee till thought is blind

Patrolman Mancuso's love for the motorcycle was platonically intense.

But I was used to finding something deadly in things that attracted me; there was always something deadly lurking in anything I wanted, anything I loved. And if it wasn't there, as for example with Phineas, then I put it there myself.