Maggie Stiefvater Quotes

I become quite obsessive when I get into something.

You've recognised a fundamental feature of an addict's life. Maintaining your habit is so important you've no real interest in anything else.

And people with obsessions, reflected Bond, were blind to danger.

My brother Paul's really kind of obsessive, and he obsesses over things.

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.

Sometimes you fixate on something so much that everything else fades away.

I'm obsessive when I get an idea in my head.

Obsessed? I don't know what the word means. I know there were times when I couldn't think of anything else. I used to stay in every weeknight in the hope that he might get free and call me. It felt like I had a disease I didn't want to get rid of. I suppose that's a definition of obsession, yes.

You start living for the obsession alone ... You want to arrive somewhere regardless of whether you're enjoying the road or not.

People see everything through the lens of their obsessions.

I was obsessed. I wouldn't quit. My grades suffered. I didn't care.

Now that I've seen her, I can't stop seeing her.

All my life I have been passionately interested in monomaniacs of any kind, people carried away by a single idea. The more one limits oneself, the closer one is to the infinite; these people, as unworldly as they seem, burrow like termites into their own particular material to construct, in miniature, a strange and utterly individual image of the world.

Anything that you can do a tiny bit of research about, I'll turn it into an obsession.

the whole way down, I was only thinking one thing . . . L E N A

From the time I was 11 until I was 23 and met my wife, wrestling was all I cared about. It was an obsession, and that's why I think I ended up making it. There was no other option for me.

I've always been somebody who sort of throws himself, you could say, obsessively into whatever thing I'm passionate about.

I just need to do Pac's work. I just need to. Maybe because I'm a recovering addict, I'm obsessed like that.

When you have an addictive personality, you fixate upon things easily. Routines and behaviors, and ritual, becomes very important.

I am quite obsessive by nature.

You're an addiction...my obsession.

But gamblers know how a man can sit for almost twenty-four hours at cards, without looking to right, or to left.

Addiction is when you can't get enough of what you don't want any more.

I want you bad like a natural disaster. You are all I see. You are the only one I want to know.

A mind obsessed with sex is good for nothing else.