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"Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer."

"You're mine, Angel. Every last piece of you. I won't let anything change that."

"Damn the way he had control over me."

"When we first split up, he called me a stalker, but that's like an emotive word, "stalker", isn't it? I don't think you can call it stalking when it's just phone calls and letters and emails and knocking on the door. And I only turned up at his work twice. Three times, if you count his Christmas party, which I don't, because he said he was going to take me to that anyway."

"The thought of her gave me such a continual anguish that I could no more forget her than an aching tooth. It was involuntary, hopeless, compulsive. For years she had been the first thing I remembered when I woke up, the last thing that drifted through my mind as I went to sleep, and during the day she came to me obtrusively, obsessively, always with a painful shock."

"I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets. Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps. I hunger for your sleek laugh, your hands the color of a savage harvest, hunger for the pale stones of your fingernails, I want to eat your skin like a whole almond. I want to eat the sunbeam flaring in your lovely body, the sovereign nose of your arrogant face, I want to eat the fleeting shade of your lashes, and I pace around hungry, sniffing the twilight, hunting for you, for your hot heart, Like a puma in the barrens of Quitratue."
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"Disappointment came to me, and booted me, and bruised and hurt me, but that's how people grow up."

"I don't want to go on much longer, really. I think that would suggest a lack of imagination. A certain lack of dignity also."

"And make no mistake, my friend, your pointless life will end; but before you go, can you look at the truth?"

"You made me feel less alone;you made me feel not quite sodeformed, uninformed and hunchbacked."

"There's so much destruction all over the world - and all you can do is complain about ME!"

"Now this might disturb you, but I find I'm OK by myself;and I don't need you or your benevolence to make sense."

"I need grit and struggle and Los Angeles is terribly nice, but people, once they get there, cease to be real. Constant and repetitive fulfillment is not good for the human spirit. We all need rain and good old depression. Life can't be all beer and skittles."
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