Quotes About Attachment

No es el árbol el que abandona a la flor, sino la flor la que abandona al árbol.

Now, I'm ridiculously attached to my head, seeing that it seems to go rather well with my shoulders.

Now, I entertain a ridiculous partiality for my head, it seems to suit my shoulders so correctly.

L'amour est la plus égoïste de toutes les passions.

The inhabitant of New England is attached to his township not so much because he was born there as because he sees in that township a free and strong corporation that he is a part of and that is worth his trouble to seek to direct.

Still, I couldn't help but wonder if it was a mistake for people like us to be tied to a place. If we weren't meant to be ready and willing to wander. If everything we needed was contained in who we were. And what we remember.

It had made her too helpless, because that's what love did. There was no way around it and no way to fight it. Now if she lost, she lost everything.

When you fall in love like that, time doesn't matter. This was the secret he told Maria, the last words he ever said. What belonged to you once, will always belong to you. Be grateful if you have walked through the world with another's heart in your hand.

Love like this was all consuming. I found that I was jealous of the strangest things - sunlight, streets, curtains, even her clothing, anything that was close to her.

He has stumbled into love, and now he's stuck there. He's fairly used to not getting what he wants, and he's dealt with it, yet he can't help but wonder if that's only because he didn't want anything too badly.

This is what love was, you stayed when you wanted to run away. You held on when you knew you had no choice but to let go.

the past was what we carried with us, threaded to the future, and we decided whether to keep it close or let it go.

Maybe I'm afraid of love," Franny admitted. "It's too powerful." "You?" Isabelle scoffed. "Who chose courage? You're stronger than you know. Which is why I'm leaving you what matters most. The book.

This is your heart that you hold in your hands, be careful with it, don't lose it, and don't forget that I loved you the same way even though you weren't born to me.

Real love was dangerous. It got you from inside and held on tight. And if you didn't let go fast enough you might be willing to do anything for its sake.

You didn't have to be cursed in love to know that when you loved someone you were open to great loss.

This is what happens when you stay in one place for thirteen years, Anne says. First you own things. Then they own you.

Never agree to take a puppy for a week, Elinor knew that now. A week was all the time it took to be won over completely, despite the messes on the carpets and the shedding, the chewed slippers and shredded books.

What had she thought, that love was a toy, something easy and sweet, just to play with? Real love was dangerous, it got you from inside and held on tight, and if you didn't let go fast enough you might be willing to do anything for its sake.

Who would have guessed you'd be crying over that old hay bag." But that wasn't it at all, Elinor saw that from the look on his face when he turned to her. That was the attachment, that was the way he held on to her.

He knew that attachments were for the living, and so he did the honorable thing. He let her go. He leaned close so she would hear him say it was all right for her to leave him. They knew it was now; they could feel something shift the way it always did. Even Argus, who'd been whimpering, grew quiet. It was not a dream, but something more. She breathed out, and inside that one breath was every word that had been spoken, every step she had taken, everyone she had ever loved.

Natalia refused to let go of her grandchildren. If anything, that was her philosophy. That was the reason she had slapped Claire's face. "Wake up!" she cried.

Each time she sees it she is reminded of how some things are never over they stay with you until they are a part of you, like it or not

The responsibility of loving someone is too much for anyone to take, which is why she's done her best to avoid it.