#obsess

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I feel something familiar about this place. This house…” I dragged out a hand and gestured towards it with my thumb. “I dream about it. I’ve been dreaming about it for years. Being in it.” I had her attention. “With you.


Sofia Grey


#grey-mansion #josh-delaney #obsession #suki-bridgewater #dreams

Human beings had two basic orientations: HAVING and BEING HAVING: seeks to acquire, posses things even people BEING: focuses on the experience; exchanging, engaging, sharing with other people


Erich Fromm


#possession #experience

i discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right time, each word in the right style, was not the well-deserved reward of an ordered mind, but just the opposite: a complete system of pretense invented by me to hide the disorder of my nature.


Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez


#obsession #order #nature

There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it.


Shannon L. Alder


#books #boyfriend #choices #faith #family

Don't you ever wonder if this life has just gotten old and stale? When suddenly faced with my possible demise, I can't think of one thing I would miss, except you." - Vampire, Michel Baptiste


Denise K. Rago


#michel-baptist #vampires #life

I wish there was a word more than ‘love’ itself to convey what I feel for you.


Faraaz Kazi


#obsession #true-love #love

You don’t always get to chose who you fall in love with


Stephani Hecht


#obsession #love

A true artist removes his heart willingly, allows constructive criticism to stomp it, then puts it back—bruised and aching—as he continues to strive for excellence due to the all-consuming obsession and love for his art.


H.G. Mewis


#constructive-criticism #h-g-mewis #heart #love #obsession

Most people who fall obsessively in love claim that it happens precipitously, unexpectedly [...] But I believe there's almost always a prerequisite. Falling in love in this way will usually occur at a time of transition. We may not be conscious of it, but something has ended and something new must begin. Romantic obsession is like a cataclysm breaking up the empty landscape. Like a strange exotic plant, it grows in arid soil. (pp. 27-28)


Rosemary Sullivan


#obsession #love

Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it. Those who do not do it, think of it as a cousin of stamp collecting, a sister of the trophy cabinet, bastard of a sound bank account and a weak mind.


Jeanette Winterson


#obsession #think