#bse

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

It's similar to the way you feel cuddling an infant or a kitten, when you want to squeeze it so hard you'd kill it... ↗

— Zoë Heller

#obsession #love

That’s the thing about success and happiness. Every time I fall in love I become absolutely, pathologically obsessed. The moment that you have what you want, and you’re not totally ready for it, you become obsessed with the idea that you don’t deserve it. ↗

— Sara Quin

#deserve #love #obsession #pathologically #sara-quin

The love object occupies the thoughts of the person diagnosed as 'in love' all the time despite the probability that very little is actually known about it. To it are ascribed all qualities considered by the obsessed as good, regardless of whether the object in question possesses those qualities in any degree. Expectations are set up which no human being could fulfill. Thus the object chosen plays a special role in relation to the go of the obsessed, who decided that he or she is the right or the only person for him. In the case of a male this notion may sanction a degree of directly aggressive behavior either in pursuing the object or driving off competition. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#obsession #love

YOU YOU YOU your eyes, thick as a high school scrapbook crackling and yellow, curling at the edges a book of myths in which i do not appear. ↗

— Clint Catalyst

#clint-catalyst #eyes #poem #short #unrequited-love