Quotes About Attachment

Home is here in Philadelphia. I never like to be away too long.

Philadelphia is always going to be home.

I feel like I have adopted the Philippines as my second country.

I love the Philippines. I feel like it's a huge part of me. It's my home.

Nothing has gotten me out of Philadelphia. I moved 20 minutes away from Philly. That's about it.

Conservatism, for me, is the philosophy and the politics of attachment.

I wear jewellery that I never take off. I have a ring and two necklaces. I always have them on and get scared when I have to take them off for photo shoots. The ring is my mum's mum's mum's, and she gave it to me for my 18th birthday. The necklace is the same one that my sister has. She's called Hannah, and the name is the chain.

I don't have a favorite photo. As a photographer, I have attachments to each image. Not the one photo: the experience of getting the photos is the challenge or the thing.

Most writers who leave their country physically have already left it mentally and emotionally.

As a writer, when you fall in love with a place, you want to spend more time in it, either physically or mentally, and so you write about it.

There's some pictures of me playing hollow bodies, but I never last long. I always come back to the acoustic.

Here's the thing about Apple technology: once you own a piece, you want to use it.

No matter where I've been or where I go, a piece of Missouri is always with me because this is where I'm from and where I grew up.

A piece of my heart will always be with Liverpool.

I love guys who have roots. Paul Pierce has roots embedded in Boston.

I've been in relationships and had long-term boyfriends since I was 13, so I've always had that emotional pillar of support. I'd got to a point where I felt like I couldn't live without that.

Pilots have their names painted just beneath the canopy of their aircraft. This gives the pilot a sense of ownership for his or her jet. What's more, like cars, each aircraft has its own personality, so it's important for a pilot to get to know and love his aircraft.

Back in the day, I had this fluoro pink hoodie that I thought was the coolest thing ever. Left it at a party and never saw it again. Probably the best thing that could have happened.

When the painting is hanging on your wall for a long time, you don't notice it. You get tired of it, even if it's a Picasso. When the next generation inherits the painting, they sell it. I don't want to be sold.

If I was to leave home without my wallet and my iPhone, and I could only go back and get one, I'd grab my iPhone.

I used to have a lovely wallet with lots of different compartments where I kept photographs of my grandmother, grandfather and friends. It was stolen one night when I was out in Edinburgh, and I never got it back.

I like animals. I like people who like animals. I hate people who love animals to the point they lose their sense of reason. I'm talking the 'my computer wallpaper is my dog,' 'I hang a Christmas stocking for my cat' crowd.

When I write stories I am like someone who is in her own country, walking along streets that she has known since she was a child, between walls and trees that are hers.

I threw away the whole of my working history, my photograph albums, diaries and stage clothes. Shoving big, ugly discs on walls is a bit like rubbing people's faces in it, saying 'I am considerably richer than you.' It is completely unnecessary.