" 'You like jealousy. You like knowing people want you.'

He wasn't talking about sex, and my heart slowed a little. 'Is it not natural to want to be liked?'

'That ain't what you want. It's like you got to have everybody's heart, and if they don't give it, you rip it out and watch it bleed.' "

― Sarah Monette , The Virtu (Doctrine of Labyrinths, #2)