Mania

m a n i a - obsessive love ; experience great emotional highs and lows ; very possessive and often jealous lovers

Collette, the most peculiar of runaways. She names the objects she's fond of, she hums songs that she spent weeks memorizing as they played on the radio, and her hands shake when she flips through countless books. She could never figure out how to hold a knife properly.

She was awfully strange.

He was the most terrifying of souls. With hair that curled in many directions at every hour of the day , soft-spoken lips and a furious mind, and the way he awkwardly glanced away when she stared back for too long. His hands could so easily snap her in half.

He was awfully obsessed.

"The problem with the human mind is that we so desperately want something that we will create an illusion to achieve it. It leads us to our capture. It leads us to our grave."