Quotes About Attachment

I loved you once long ago, Athis… you seemed to me a small, ungainly child.

but me you have forgotten or you love some man more than me

But you have forgotten me or you love some man more than me

He has never understood that sometimes real love requires one to let the beloved go. Probably he never will.

Children survived, if they had half a chance. Children who could form attachments survived best.

They could bind her to them, all of them, with need and love and worry. But they would not. They knew her as well as she knew them, and they would not ask her to stay.

Is where you're from the place you're leaving or where you have roots?

about your actions. You keep me totally in

Fine,' Aria conceded. 'But *I'll* carry her.' She grabbed the baby seeat from the back. A smell of baby powder wafted up to greet her, bringing a lump in her throat. Her father Byron, and his girlfriend, Meredith, had just had a baby, and she loved Lola with all her heart. If she looked too long at this baby, she might love her just as much.

I wondered if that was what I was doing myself – caring so much about something that was so long gone that I was only propping it up.

No one worth possessing Can be quite possessed.

No one worth possessing can quite be possessed

For you would never be content With just a corner in my room, Yea, if you came the rest must go ? Into the gloom. And so, farewell, O friend, my friend! Nay, I could weep a little too, But I shall only smile and say ? Farewell to you.

I'm talking about the ones who, for whatever reason, are as much a part of you as your own soul. Their place in your heart is tender; a bruise of longing, a pulse of unfinished business. Just hearing their names pushes and pulls at you in a hundred ways, and when you try to define those hundred ways, describe them even to yourself, words are useless. If you had a lifetime to talk, there would still be things left unsaid.

You know what this means," Harrison said. "It means no goodbye," Zoe said, feeling a smile rise up from inside her. Pipsqueak nuzzled the top of her head.

A woman predisposed to be a mother can learn to love any baby, while a mother not so disposed does not even learn to love her own.

People could rationally decide that prolonged relationships take up too much time and effort and that they'd much rather do other kinds of things. But most people are afraid of rejection.

You can't have your daughter as long as you have a concept of her. When you get rid of the concept, you meet your daughter for the first time. That's the way this works.

Happiness for a reason is just another form of misery because the reason can be taken away from us at any time.

A home from which you can be ejected at any time is no true home.

A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.

Only the children know what they are looking for. They waste their time over a rag doll and it becomes very important to them; and if anybody takes it away from them, they cry.

Every time we buy something we deepen our emotional deprivation and hence our need to buy something.

The more time I spent with him, the more I knew the feelings weren't going away.