The course of true love never did run smooth.
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.
Is it love, obsession, infatuation? You don't know. You think of a strange and beautiful word you read about once, Limerance, a psychological term, meaning an obsessive love, a state that's almost like a drug. Need like a wolf paces the perimeter of your world, back and forth, back and forth, never letting up. ...You're appalled by the new appetites within you, kicking their feet and clawing to get out.
It's an old story, really: seduced and corrupted, in the end, by an obsessive love for the text.
I was obsessed with Tupac - like eat, sleep, breathe Tupac. During this obsessive love affair, I dressed the part.
Books and music saved me as a teenager because it was through them that I realized that I wasn't alone in my obsessive love for words and music.
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