Book Quote by Lynne Truss

“we are unattractive know-all obsessives who get things out of proportion and are in continual peril of being disowned by our exasperated families.”

— Lynne Truss

Changing your mind every five seconds is unattractive. Know what you want, or don't bother getting involved. Seriously.

— Anonymous

I don't mind being unattractive, at least if someone's with me, I know that they're with me not because of looks.

— Anonymous

“Sticklers unite, you have nothing to lose but your sense of proportion, and arguably you didn't have a lot of that to begin with.”

— Lynne Truss

“The Trenwith Poldarks had never been sticklers for the agrémens,”

— Winston Graham

“The sticklers Truss appeals to in the book are distinguished by several features. One is anger out of proportion to the crime. They”

— Robert Lane Greene

I've encountered Knausgaard obsessives who work for the government. In Hollywood. I've met them at a queer separatist compound.

— Torrey Peters

“When obsessives are given their object of desire, what do they feel? It was hard to say, really. In a sense their lives were…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

Kids before they're 7 or 8 are like little manic obsessives. They become completely hooked on things and they're slightly crazy.

— Clive Owen

“But paranoids might have real enemies and obsessives might obsess about really important stuff.”

— Stan Goff

You do get your stalkers and obsessives though, and it's a huge problem sometimes. When I lived in Jersey, I used to have a…

— John Nettles

Autograph-hunting is the most unattractive manifestation of sex-starved curiosity.

— Laurence Olivier