This weeks quote is from the The Ice Queen: A Novel by Alice Hoffman.

“What is the difference between love and obsession? Didn’t both make you stay up all night, wandering the streets, a victim of your own imagination, your own heartbeat? Didn’t you fall into both, headfirst into quicksand? Wasn’t every man a fool and every woman a slave?

Love was like rain: it turned to ice, or it disappeared. Now you saw it, now you couldn’t find it no matter how hard you might search. Love evaporated, obsession was realer; it hurt, like a pin in you bottom, an stone in your shoe. A morning phone call filled with regret. A letter that said ‘Dear you, goodbye from me’. Obsession tasted like something familiar. Something you’d known your whole life. It settled and lurked; it stayed with you.”

I’m not so sure that I agree that obsession is longer lasting, it’s just results in more intense feelings for what is usually a shorter period of time. Love morphs from passionate obsession into something softer and longer lasting - if you’re lucky!

What do you think?