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“Maniacal obsession can be a destructive or a transformative psychic force. What is unacceptable is a life of blandness, not to dare penetrate into the heart of nothingness.”

Book:Dead Toad Scrolls

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“If Niall could see Marianne, he would say: don’t tell me. You like her. It’s true she is Connell’s type, maybe even the originary model of the type: elegant, bored-looking, with an impression of perfect self-assurance. And he’s attracted to her, he can admit that. After these months away from home, life seems much larger, and his personal dramas less significant. He’s not the same anxious, repressed person he was in school, when his attraction to her felt terrifying, like an oncoming train, and he threw her under it.”

Love Growth Attraction Obsession Normal People Sally Rooney Irish Literature Irish Fiction Contemporary Ficton

Book:Normal People

Source: Normal People

“death is never allowed to touch you”

Love Death Obsession Denial

Book:The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein

Source: The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein

“I've thought about nothing else but you.”

Love Devotion Obsession Iris Murdoch In Love The Black Prince Thinking Of You

Book:The Black Prince

Source: The Black Prince

“I think of you so incessantly, so insistently. The thought of you is always there. It lies hidden, a latency, in the most unlikely things and places, ready at the command of some chance association to jump out at me from its ambush.”

Obsession In Love

Book:point counter point

Source: point counter point

“You know when things get inside you and you can't stop going round and round the same piece of misery.”

Anxiety Misery Obsession Iris Murdoch Obsessive The Black Prince

Book:The Black Prince

Source: The Black Prince

“Can any work in a prison camp merge with your dreams, absorb your whole soul, rob you of sleep? It can—but only the work you do to escape!”

Obsession 1976 Gulag Prison Escape Prison Camp Katorga

Book:The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Books V-VII

Source: The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Books V-VII

“Loren was the air I needed to breathe; her words were the bricks that kept me pieced together. Her body was the temple where I wanted to worship. I didn’t know if I believed in God and eternity but, with her, I felt like I was knocking on heaven’s gates. —Andrew, High School Lover”

Obsession First Love Friends To Lovers

Book:High School Lover

Source: High School Lover

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