« Alone and Being Me | Main | Falling In Love »
October 14, 2005
Fire
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, headfast into quicksand? Wasn't every man in love a fool and every woman a slave?
Love was like rain: it turned into 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 your bottom, a stone in your shoe. It didn't go away in the blink of an eye. A morning call filled with regret. A letter that said, Dear you, good-bye from me. Obsession tasted like something familiar. Something you'd known your whole life. It settled and lurked; it stayed with you.
-Alice Hoffman, The Ice Queen
Posted by lainey at October 14, 2005 03:03 PM
Comments
Looks like mine is obsession.
Posted by: Silenus at October 17, 2005 06:47 PM