Quotes About Obsession

I wanted him to do it, I wanted it to happen- And it did. I controlled him. Just like the Mayor. I watch him go, still walking to the food store, like it was his own idea. My hands are shaking. Bloody hell.

I'm too busy repeatedly counting ketchup bottles and wishing I was dead, wishing I was dead, wishing I was dead, wishing I was dead.

I would submit, sir, that you and your family are addicted to money.

I always read. You know how sharks have to keep swimming or they die? I'm like that. If I stop reading, I die.

I would never normally approach a woman in this way, but I couldn't help but notice that you have the eyes of a lady I was once desperately in love with. " "What a shame to love only once," she said, showing her white teeth in a wicked smile. "I've heard some men can manage twice or even more." I ignored her gibe. "I am only a fool once. Never will I love again.

She was a greedy thing sometimes. Wanting for herself. Twisting the world all out of proper shape. Pushing everything about with the weight of her desire.

I wanted to get inside so badly I could taste it. It probably shows a perverse element of my personality that even though I was finally inside the Archives, surrounded by endless secrets, that I was drawn to the one locked door I had found. Perhaps it is human nature to seek out hidden things. Perhaps it is simply my nature.

Those were the worst memories. Precious and perfect. Sharp as a mouthful of glass. I lay in bed, clenched into a trembling knot, unable to sleep, unable to turn my mind to other things, unable to stop myself from remembering again. And again. And again

I took the time to fret uselessly about things I had no control over.

Never quenched. Though I am doused in you, I burn.

I will break your heart over a fucking library card.

And second, the best cloaks have innumerable little pockets that I have an irrational and overpowering attraction toward.

She's stolen his tongue as well as his heart. All his words are for her. He can spare none for us.

We love what we love. Reason does not enter into it. In many ways, unwise love is the truest love.

I had watched a hundred men dash themselves to pieces against Denna like ships attempting to ignore the tide.

I'd seen Simmon pursue nearly every woman within three miles of the University with the doomed enthusiasm of a child trying to fly.

When you're alone, it's easy to be afraid. It's easy to focus on what might be lurking in the dark at the bottom of the cellar steps. It's easy to obsess on unproductive things, like the madness of stepping into a storm of spinning knives. When you're alone it's easy to sweat, panic, fall apart …

When you're alone, it's easy to be afraid. It's easy to focus on what might be lurking in the dark at the bottom of the cellar steps. It's easy to obsess on unproductive things, like the madness of stepping into a storm of spinning knives. When you're alone it's easy to sweat, panic, fall apart … But I wasn't alone.

an irrational and overpowering attraction

My eyes were always returning to Denna. She sat beside me, arms hugging her knees. Her skin was more luminous than the moon, her eyes wider than the sky, deeper than the water, darker than the night.

I'd grown so accustomed to finding her that now I caught glimpses of her when she wasn't there.

When you're alone, it's easy to be afraid. It's easy to focus on what might be lurking in the dark at the bottom of the cellar steps. It's easy to obsess on unproductive things, like the madness of stepping into a storm of spinning knives. When you're alone it's easy to sweat, panic, fall apart … But

He had used only a drop of his perfume for his performance in Grasse. There was enough left to enslave the whole world. If he wanted, he could be feted in Paris, not by tens of thousands, but by hundreds of thousands of people; or could walk out to Versailles and have the King kiss his feet; write the Pope a perfumed letter and reveal himself as the new Messiah; be anointed in Notre-Dame as Supreme Emperor before kings, or even as God come to earth.

For Grenouille, this simplicity seemed a deliverance.