Quotes About Attachment

What we do not pay for in some way, unfortunately we tend not to regard in its true worth." She smiled to soften the words a little. Jemima frowned. "Do you not think sometimes we value a thing merely because we have paid for it?" she asked. "And perhaps paid too much? And so we cling to it, and go on paying?

And what if I never go of my own free will? Will you pitch me from some window so that I must fly or fall? Will you bolt all shutters after me? You had better, because I'll knock and knock and knock until I fall down dead. I'll have no wings that take me away from you.

There comes a time when a house owns you and you know you have to get free of it, and go on with the rest of your life.

I've loved you more than any being in all the world whom I've ever loved.

You think I'm a doll, don't you? You think I'm cute and made of poured wax and you'll stay as long as I stay.

I hate you as much as I have ever loved you.

His expression was concerned and protective, and I felt such an overwhelming need of him and love for him that I was about to cry. I held it back.

Did I love this child too much to do what I planned to do?

I didn't like seeing blood on him any more than I liked seeing it on Merrick. It struck me hard how much I loved them both.

I thought of Merrick. I couldn't know what the coming day would be like for her. I feared for her. I feared for her. I despised myself. And I wanted Merrick terribly. I wanted Louis. I wanted them as my companions, and it was utterly selfish, and yet it seemed a creature could not live without simple companionship which I held in mind.

I wanted my house, my children, Amadeo, Bianca. I wanted my Venice. I wanted my mortal world.

Do you know how it wounds me to leave behind the one city in the world with which I'm truly in love?

The ones we love become our burdens in death, and this is how we remain connected to them.

Luego, estando yo a punto de dormirme, la así con fuerza por la muñeca. —Ni se te ocurra marcharte de aquí sin decirme nada —le dije. —Átame a las columnas y entonces no podré irme —me susurró al oído.

Had I ever loved anyone more than I loved him? Had I ever revealed more of my soul to anyone than I revealed to him?

That was the test of love, he thought dreamily, when you can't bear to be this happy without the other person with you. He was really afraid that

Be careful who you love. They'll be part of you always. Even after the love is long dead, the fuckers'll be part of you.

You will have to grow up to her quickly, I thought, surprising myself, or you will lose her.

Walter and I are very fond of some children, but not across the board, not as a species. No

Talvolta bisogna rinunciare a quel che si ama per sopravvivere.» Takashi le lasciò la mano. «Hai mai dovuto farlo?» Lui si voltò a guardarla per un tempo talmente lungo che sarebbe potuto essere pericoloso, ma sembrava avere una sorta di sesto senso quando si trattava del traffico. «Sto per farlo adesso» replicò.

He's a dope. She's crazy about him, he's in love with her, and yet he's being all noble and leaving her. He's a fathead.

apparently you grow to love whom you're handed.

Oh, a French braid," Greta said. "That's it. And then when she undid them, her hair would still be in ripples, little leftover squiggles, for hours and hours afterward." "Yes…" "Well," David said, "that's how families work, too. You think you're free of them, but you're never really free; the ripples are crimped in forever." Greta started laughing.

The trouble with discarding bad memories was that evidently the good ones went with them