"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."

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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."

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"The quest for a lost city erodes your body, damaging you beyond all reason. But it is your mind that bears the heaviest toll. Listen to the doubters, the worriers and the weak, and the vaguest hope of success evaporates."

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"You might never comprehend my madness. But it stands behind my undying love for you. You're the object of my everything. I'm sorry I've been stupid lately."

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"I couldn't escape him, now or ever. He'd always be there, consuming my every thought, my heart locked in his hands. I was drawn to him by forces I couldn't control, let alone escape."

Becca Fitzpatrick, American Novelist

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"He did not care upon what terms he satisfied his passion. He had even a mad, melodramatic idea to drug her."

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

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"Damn the way he had control over me."

Shannon A. Thompson, American Author

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"If I died, I'd expect my guy to mourn me forever, and if he tried to hook up with someone else, I'd haunt him till he ended up in a crazy house. Then I'd haunt the girl."

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"Oh. I just assumed... That because I am so absorbed by him everyone must be too."

Veronica Roth, American Author

Obsession, Love, Emotion, Focus

"I have got this obsessive compulsive disorder where I have to have everything in a straight line, or everything has to be in pairs."

David Beckham, English Athlete

Obsession, Disorder

"Dead or not, I have come for his heart and I will have it."

Holly Black, American Author

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