Quotes About Attachment

And it was then that she first felt all the dark love and shame that came from the pure accident of home, the deep and arbitrary place that happened to be yours.

There are lots of people in this world, Moss, but you can't be in love with them all.

Someday, like everybody, this man you truly love like no other is going to die. No matter how much you love him, you cannot save him. No matter how much you love: nothing, no one, lasts.

You don't quit loving somebody just on account of they're dead.

The problem is, when you depend on a substitute for love, you can never get enough.

The things most people need to learn in therapy are related to attachment, abandonment, love, and fear. We are trying to access basic emotional processes that are organized in primitive and early-developing parts of the brain. The language of these emotions is also very basic; it is the language of childhood. The more complex the language and ideas you bring into therapy, the more likely you are to stimulate your clients' intellectualizing defenses.

Those who are nurtured best survive best. It turns out that our emotional resilience and our ability to learn are inextricably interwoven.

Conversely, we humans are born premature and highly dependent newborns whose brains are shaped through years of interactions with our caretakers and the environment.

Roza didn't want to go, and she made the woman promise to let her ride the horse again. It was apparently called "Russia" because it was very big, a complete liability, and always going where it wasn't wanted.

There is only one thing worse than losing the one you love, and that is losing them without knowing why. If you are a dog, then your master is like a god to you, and the pain of losing him is greater still.

Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away

Love itself is what is left over, when being being in love has burned away.

when one has possessions he is as often possessed by them as possessing them.

when does a man leave a place he has lived without some regret? For each time some part of him is left behind. So

In that I was selfish. I wanted her with me always.

She was glad she really loved stories. Suddenly she made a face. "Oh, yuck!" she said. "What is it?" asked Mrs. Jewls. "What if I really love John, too?

The next time I get a cat, I'll kill him. Then he'll never run away," said Kathy.

Jo loved a few persons very dearly and dreaded to have their affection lost or lessened in any way.

He was the first, the only love her life, and in a nature like hers such passions take deep root and die-hard.

Don't take it away! It's only a fancy, but a man must love something…

I might've said 'yes,' not because I love him any more, but because I care more to be loved than when he went away.

It may be vain and wrong to say it, but- I'm afraid- Laurie is getting too fond of me. Then you don't care for him in the way it is evident he begins to care for you? And Mrs March looked anxious as she put the question. Mercy, no! I love the dear boy, as I always have, and am immensely proud of him, but as for anything more, it's out of the question.

I haven't the least idea of loving him or anybody else

That I was in love? Well, I am, but not with her.