There is some consensus: There's obsession, there's never satiety, and there's always remorse. For me, the big thing is that you're always breaking a promise - for example, you promise yourself you're just going to have coffee with a man, then before you know it, you're in bed together.
Susan CheeverThere were a number of books about Bill Wilson, and by him, but a lot of the basic biographical tasks had not been done.
Susan CheeverObsession is so extreme and so hard to imagine with the rational mind that it has a science-fiction-like quality to it-it's almost as if the obsessed one has been taken over by a replica, a pod, a facsimile of the rational person.
Susan CheeverA fierce literary woman with a penchant for married men, Margaret Fuller was ultimately torn between motherhood and her final career as a political reporter.
Susan CheeverAddiction isnt about substance - you arent addicted to the substance, you are addicted to the alteration of mood that the substance brings.
Susan Cheever