#bse

But what the hell, I told myself, it wasn't as if I were one of them or even competing with them, for heaven's sake, I was merely a disinterested spectator at the Banquet of Life. The scientist dropping into the zoo at feeding time. That is what I told myself. ↗

— Elaine Dundy

#life

love keeps you up at night, fills your mind at school, and obsesses with your soul. ↗

— Jeanie Wilding

#mind #obsession #soul-mates #love

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

#obsession #love

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

#obsession #love

I think you can love a person too much. You put someone up on a pedestal, and all of a sudden, from that perspective, you notice what's wrong - a hair out of place, a run in a stocking, a broken bone. You spend all your time and energy making it right, and all the while, you are falling apart yourself. You don't even realize what you look like, how far you've deteriorated, because you only have eyes for someone else. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#obsession #love

I will be with her again, or I will die. There aren’t any other options ↗

— Julie Kagawa

#love #meghan-chase #obsession #the-iron-fey #love

From the first time I saw you, I've belonged to you completely. I still do. If you want me. -Jace ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#love #obsession #love

Hopeless heart that thrives on paradox; that longs for the beloved and is secretly relieved when the beloved is not there. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#obsession #passion #love

I love you so much that nothing can matter to me - not even you...Only my love- not your answer. Not even your indifference ↗

— Ayn Rand

#obsession #selfish-love #love

Love is as simple as the absence of self given to another. God, when invited, fills the void of any unrequited love; hence loving is how one is drawn closer to God no matter its most horrific repercussions. ↗

— Criss Jami

#closer #compensation #filling-the-void #god #horrific