"I want her beyond reason. I need to own, consume, worship, devour. What I've made of her in my mind cannot live in flesh."

Obsession, Desire, Possession, Truth

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"I want her beyond reason. I need to own, consume, worship, devour. What I've made of her in my mind cannot live in flesh."

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"He loved her for being so beautiful, and he hated her for it. He loved how she put shiny stuff on her lips for him, and he also reviled her for it. He wanted her to walk home alone, and he wanted to run after her and grab her up before she could take another step."

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"I hate skin, I hate bones and bodies. I want to curl up inside of him and be carried there forever."

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"The problem with trying hard not to think about something was that you thought about it even more."

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

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"I wonder if it's medically possible to be addicted to another human being."

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"Do you have to take note of every little thing I do? I mean every tiny, little thing, Dragos?'Yes, ' he said simply. 'When I look at you, even when things are going to hell, somehow everything is all right."

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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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"Damn the way he had control over me."

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Obsession, Love, Memory, Longing

"Then the rushing Pequod, freighted with savages, and laden with fire, and burning a corpse, and plunging into that blackness of darkness, seemed the material counterpart of her monomaniac commander's soul."

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"The way I'd put it, said Makin, 'is that Rike can't make an omelet without wading thigh deep in the blood of chickens and wearing their entrails as a necklace."

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"Never having been troubled by a conscience before, I was far from sure what to expect of one, and so when for a minute or two each day at dawn a voice began to whisper to me to be a better man, I decided the shock of recent events had finally woken mine. My conscience had a name- Baraqel. I didn't like him much."

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"The road forgets. Make your life a journey, keep moving toward what you want, leave behind anything that's too heavy to carry."

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"You have my advice. Carry it with you. It won't slow you down."

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"For the longest time I studied revenge to the exclusion of all else. I built my first torture chamber in the dark vaults of imagination. Lying on bloody sheets in the Healing Hall I discovered doors within my mind that I'd not found before, doors that even a child of nine knows should not be opened. Doors that never close again. I threw them wide."

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"I'm a liar and a cheat and a coward, but I will never, ever, let a friend down. Unless of course not letting them down requires honesty, fair play, or bravery."

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"Keep still and your troubles find you. I might not have known much about the unborn, but I sure as hell knew about running!"

Mindfulness

"The enemy of my enemy may be my friend of course the friend of my friend is often a jerk."

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"And that's how it is in this world, boy. Start a tale, just a little tale that should fade and die-take your eye off it for just a moment and when you turn back it's grown big enough to grab you up in its teeth and shake you. That's how it is. All our lives are tales. Some spread, and grow in the telling. Others are just told between us and the gods, muttered back and forth behind our days, but those tales grow too and shake us just as fierce."

Narrative

"There are no other choices for you, Prince Jalan, and when there are no choices all men are equally brave."

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