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“you've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.” John Irving, The Hotel New Hampshire
“Any technique, however worthy and desirable, becomes a disease when the mind is obsessed with it.” Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do
“I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river; to me you're everything that exists; the reality of everything.” Virginia Woolf, Night and Day
“I have little left in myself—I must have you. The world may laugh—may call me absurd, selfish—but it does not signify. My very soul demands you: it will be satisfied, or it will take deadly vengeance on its frame.” Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
“And as is usually true of a man of one idea, he became obsessed.” John Steinbeck, East of Eden
“Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul.” Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
“I knew what love was supposed to be: obsession, with undertones of nausea.” Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye
“I couldn't bear to think about it; and yet, somehow, I couldn't think about nothing else.” Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
“When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.” J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
“my heart is set, as firmly as ever heart of man was set on woman. I have no thought, no view, no hope in life, beyond her; and if you oppose me in this great stake, you take my peace and happiness in your hands, and cast them to the wind.” Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
“I was consumed by the mystery Edward presented. And more than a little obsessed by Edward himself. Stupid, stupid, stupid. I wasn't as eager to escape Forks as I should be, as any normal, sane person would be.” Stephenie Meyer, Twilight
“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 altogether.” Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
“If I could dream at all, it would be about you. And I'm not ashamed of it.” Stephenie Meyer, Twilight
“I hope you never think about anything as much as I think about you.” Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living; you said I killed you—haunt me, then!” Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
“When a man says he does not want to speak of something he usually means he can think of nothing else.” John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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