Quotes About Attachment

When one really knows a village like this and its surroundings, it is like becoming acquainted with a single person. The process of falling in love at first sight is as final as it is swift in such a case, but the growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair.

My soul left me—I felt it fly from me and lodge in her.

Was this, she thought, what happened when one made friends with a married woman? One automatically got the husband too? - like a crochet pattern, coming free with a magazine?

She said that that was the disadvantage of bringing creatures into the house: one grew used to them, and then, one had the upset of their loss. The

Being in love, you know... it's not like having a canary, in a cage. When you lose one sweetheart, you can't just go out and get another to replace her.

But, here was a curious thing. The more I tried to give up thinking of her, the more I said to myself, 'She's nothing to you', the harder I tried to pluck the idea of her out of my heart, the more she stayed there.

Your twisting is done--you have the last thread of my heart. I wonder: when the thread grows slack, will you feel it?

How do you know if you're really in love? Proper love, I mean, not just romantic fairy-tale love. Love is when the thought of living without a person makes you physically sick.

That she cried over the loss of a dog whose big claim to fame was that he could eat the crotch out of a pair of clean underpants in less than a minute?

Max didn't take his hands off her. As they walked to where he'd parked the hired car, he kept his arm round her shoulders, even though he was carrying her cases in his other hand and they kept bumping him.

Anyway, I don't want anyone else, I just want Vaughn.' It was good to finally say it, as if Grace said it out loud then maybe the universe would get the message and send him back to her.

It felt like he´d taken a piece of her heart with him in his carry-on luggage

Do not get attached to worldly things and pursuits. Be in the world, but do not let the world be in you.

Even when I had it, it was never mine. Not the ring...or you.

Man's many desires are like the small metal coins he carries about in his pocket. The more he has the more they weight him down.

she stuck a bookmark in my heart and walked away

When someone who's starved of love is shown something that looks like sincere affection, is it any wonder that she jumps at it and clings to it?

here with you and it just doesn't seem real sometimes and wanting to know you what you look like when I'm not with you what you think when you're in bed at night what made you cry the other day wanting to bury myself inside you and burrow into you can't get out never get out and become you live you be you

You're my favorite complication.

But this doesn't mean I'm getting attached to you.

While filming "I am Legend", Will Smith got so attached to his co-star Abbey the German Shepherd, that he asked if he could keep her, but the owner refused.

Don't become so attached to your ideas that you lose objectivity.

I knew from the start that I loved her and knew, as well, that I would never fall back from that love, never try, never want to.

All I wanted was what I'd already had. That exultation, that love. It was my one real home; I was a visitor everywhere else.