“I hated myself for needing him at such times, for craving his strength whenever I felt upset.”— Kathy Reichs, amazon.com
“I look for you everywhere; small gestures made by all kinds of people in the street remind me of you, by their similarity as much as by their differences, but I cannot say what is obsessing me; it obsesses me utterly and leaves no strength to express it.”— Franz Kafka, amazon.com
“I’m obsessed with you. Utterly, willingly and wonderfully so.”— Michael Faudet, michaelfaudet.tumblr.com
“We are addicted to our thoughts. We cannot change anything if we cannot change our thinking.”— Santosh Kalwar, amazon.com
“Love is not vain because it is frustrated, but because it is fulfilled. The people we love turn to ashes when we posess them.”— Marcel Proust, amazon.com
“I love the ground under his feet, and the air over his head, and everything he touches and every word he says. I love all his looks, and all his actions and him entirely and all together.”— Emily Brontë, amazon.com
“Nothing you say will ever be wrong cause it just feels good being in your arms.”— Majical Cloudz, open.spotify.com
“The difference is those living with OCD are not able to pass off these thoughts quickly as an ‘odd thought’ but often get ‘stuck’ on them even with every attempt to ignore or suppress them.”— Blare June, thoughtcatalog.com
“If my skin were a canvas and her lips a brush, not an inch of me would have remained unpainted and vice versa.”— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.com
“An Eskimo showed me a movie he'd recently taken of you. The poor man could hardly stop shivering, his lips and his fingers were blue. I suppose that he froze when the wind took your clothes, and I guess he just never got warm. But you stand there so nice in your blizzard of ice, oh please let me com…”— Leonard Cohen, open.spotify.com
“He is passionate about something… anything! Think his obsession with baseball borders on unhealthy? Or is he the type of guy that gets worked up talking about a project he is managing on the job? Fear not! Getting all riled up about work, sports, a hobby or politics may be a sign that he’ll be a pas…”— Jessica O'Reilly, eligiblemagazine.com
“The life of the Addict is always the same. There is no excitement, no glamour, no fun. There are no good times, there is no joy, there is no happiness. There is no future and no escape. There is only an obsession. An all-encompassing, fully enveloping, completely overwhelming obsession. To make ligh…”— James Frey, amazon.com
“She lay there on a bed that inexorably became a bed of ashes and hot coals, while her imagination dwelt on every conceivable disaster, from his having forsaken her for another woman to his having, somehow, ended up in the morgue. And as the night faded from black to gray to daylight, the telephone b…”— James Baldwin, amazon.com
“When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.”— J. K. Rowling, amazon.com
“What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction.”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com