"You've invaded my mind and I can't get you out of it," he accused with discernible disdain. She avoided looking at him and said, "Then you should forget." "Forget?" he thundered,"EVERYTHING reminds me..."
- Donna Lynn Hope
"Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins.My sin, my soul."
- Vladimir Nabokov
"Over and over I played her favorite Arvo Pärt, as a way of being with her; and she had only to mention recently read novel for me to grab it up hungrily, to be inside her thoughts, a sort of telepathy"
- Donna Tartt
"They know too well the violent hypnosis of those who hope to possess them-- men who can smell the blood on the places where a woman is breaking."
- Alana Massey
"It's almost relaxing to know I'll die fairly soon, as it's a comfort not to obsess about my next orgasm."
- Donald Hall
"Since chess was such a painful test of intellect, it affected his emotions too much to be sport."
- Paul C. Nagel
"Nothing and no one had ever belonged to him and only him—except Legion. Not that she would do anything necessary to save him, nor would he do anything necessary to save her. But. Yeah, there was alway..."
- Gena Showalter
"In recent months, the emotional aspect has become as necessary to me as the physical. It amuses me, this strange quirk of mine. I want my little captive to love me, to care about me. I want to be more..."
- Anna Zaires
"Obsession and possession are just sessions destined to end soon."
- Pushpa Rana
"The obsession with the afterlife is born of a panic at not having memories of a before-life."
- Dean Cavanagh