Quotes About Attachment

always save something to fear, even as you save something to love.

Scarlett, I'm a bad influence on you and if you have any sense you will send me packing - if you can. I'm very hard to get rid of. But I'm bad for you.

Jeems was their body servant and, like the dogs, accompanied them everywhere. He had been their childhood playmate and had been given to the twins for their own on their tenth birthday.

Twill come to you, this love of land.

I made a pretty suit of clothes and fell in love with it. And when Ashley came riding along, so handsome, so different, I put that suit on him and made him wear it whether it fitted him or not. And I wouldn't see what he really was. I kept on loving the pretty clothes—and not him at all.

She could never love anything or anyone so selflessly as they did. What a lonely feeling it was—and she had never been lonely in either body or spirit before.

He never really existed at all, except in my imagination," she thought wearily. "I loved something I made up, something that's just as dead as Melly is. I made a pretty suit of clothes and fell in love with it. And when Ashley came riding along, so handsome, so different, I put that suit on him and made him wear it whether it fitted him or not. And I wouldn't see what he really was. I kept on loving the pretty clothes—and not him at all.

She was constitutionally unable to endure any man being in love with any woman not herself

Melly is the only woman friend I ever had," she thought forlornly, "the only woman except Mother who really loved me. She's like Mother, too. Everyone who knew her has clung to her skirts.

She belonged to Ashley, forever and ever.

Once you get to naming your laptop, you know that you're really having a deep relationship with it.

I don't know if I've owned a piece of technology that I hated - I don't think I would have owned it then.

We have become so dependent on technology. I am not fond of technology myself, and I do not have a smart phone.

Once you love something, you always love it in someway. You have to. it's like, part of you for good.

Awakening Call: You're Not in love if it carries a burden.

We had been two sides of the same coin, attached by a force stronger than family or friends. We had been one.

I guess you don't really own a dog, you rent them, and you have to be thankful that you had a long lease.

God takes away the world, that the heart may cleave more to Him in sincerity.

The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar.

It is always the same with mountains. Once you have lived with them for any length of time, you belong to them. There is no escape.

For the first time I was learning how much easier it was to leave than to stay behind and love.

I didn't have a hard time making it. I had a hard time letting it go.

From the beginning of time, in childhood, I thought that pain meant I was not loved. It meant I loved.

Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.