Quotes About Attachment

Just more of that endless, useless knowledge you absorb when you're in a relationship, with no meaning or relevance outside of that relationship. When the relationship's gone, you're stuck knowing all this garbage.

I had never gotten the hang of dating — I was always going to be somebody who either had a girlfriend or didn't.

It's not human to let go of love, even when it's dead.

Why is it always the world? Why is it never just half a block? Or Jersey? You know, something we could live without?

cherished his Nebraska

As a result of this dependency, every child's greatest fear is abandonment. To children, abandonment means death. Second

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. —G. K. CHESTERTON T

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. —G. K. CHESTERTON

subjects became fonder of the people and things they experienced while they were eating.

An ardent supporter of the hometown team should go to a game prepared to take offense, no matter what happens.

Mothers sometimes are overly possessive, but not all children allow themselves to be possessed.

Paris is many different things to many different people, but, for me it is simply "home".

Sometimes we don't find the thing that will make us happy because we can't give up the thing that was supposed to.

An old belief is like an old shoe. We so value its comfort that we fail to notice the hole in it.

You know you have found love when you can't find your way back.

Never ask, "What reason do I have to be happy?" Instead ask, "To what purpose can I attach my happiness?"

Everything we possess that is not necessary for life or happiness becomes a burden, and scarcely a day passes that we do not add to it.

Self-love is an ending, she said, and not a beginning. Love means love of the thing sung, not of the song or the singing.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

[The rich] are indeed rather possessed by their money than possessors.

No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as [love] can do with a single thread.

Menos de dos horas después de llegar, ya sabía que iba a quedarme. No porque me sintiera parte del lugar, aunque así era, sino porque aquel lugar me pertenecía. No en el sentido mercenario de la propiedad, sino porque la casa y sus alrededores habían compartido su vida conmigo.

My mother says men are different from us. She says we want to be in love, but only with the one we want; a man needs to be in love, but he will love the first woman to tie a string to his heart. - Egwene, speaking to Elayne