Quotes About Attachment

There is nothing one can have that one cannot fear to lose. Instead of living life in order to have more abundantly, live life in order to be more abundantly.

He's my whole world." "Don't ever say that about anyone again. Not even me.

I wish I could stop being in love with Sam. I really do.

He said it was the kind of book you made your own.

I don't remember where we were walking to or where we were walking from. I don't even remember the season. I just remember walking between them and feeling for the first time that I belonged somewhere.

Standing to leave, he looked at her one last time, hating her and loving her just the same. She was yet another thing tying him to the city, his duty to her like a straitjacket holding him against his will. A locked box he couldn't find a way out of.

The Buddha said that suffering was caused by desire, we'd learned, and that the cessation of desire meant the cessation of suffering. When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you'd stop suffering when they did.

That's when I started thinking about my sister. [...] And how different her face looked the first time she really liked a boy who was not on a poster on her wall.

I guess what I'm saying is that this all feels very familiar. But it's not mine to be familiar about.

Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it. No involvement, no commitment.

One man asked another on the death of a mutual friend, How much did he leave? His friend responded, He left it all.

No involvement, no commitment.

They say a fool and his gold are soon parted, but they ought to say too that those who refuse ever to be parted from gold are the greatest fools of all.

Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler's heart, kill your darlings.

It's hard to let go. Even when what you're holding onto is full of thorns, it's hard to let go. Maybe especially then.

Home is where they want you to stay longer.

Was there ever a trap to match the trap of love?

When you own a piano, it's harder to think about moving.

I loved you guys, you know. I loved you so much.

Because who would ever want to get close to another person if they knew how hard the letting-go part was? In your heart they only die a little at a time, don't they? Like a plant when you go away on a trip and forget to ask a neighbor to poke in once in awhile with the old watering-can, and its so sad—

Henry Thoreau said that we don't own things; things own us. Every new object—whether it's a home, a car, a television, or a fancy phone like that one—is something more we must carry on our backs.

Of course it's heavier, he thought. It's got my grief in it. I pull it along with me everywhere I go, so I do.

Sometimes home is where the heart is, Eddie thought randomly. I believe that. Old Bobby Frost said home's the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Unfortunately, it's also the place where, once you're in there, they don't ever want to let you out.

He wanted her, suddenly and completely, with a desperate depth of feeling that felt like sickness. Everything he was and everything he had come for, it seemed, was secondary to her.