Quotes About Attachment

When you are abandoned by two parents as a baby - wow, that is something to live with.

You know I'm a Chicago kid, and Chicago will always have a big piece of my heart. But with Milwaukee - for me it was just love at first sight. As soon as I got here, I was like, Wow, this is the place for me.

It's always hard to wrap up a series. The longer I spend with the characters, the more they become like friends.

For my wrap present, Colin Farrell gave me a first edition book. I got so involved with this character and I was so sad when the movie was over that when I got home and I tried to read the book I got really emotional and I started crying.

I archive a lot of my clothes and have them wrapped up and in boxes. I call them 'little tombs' and keep them in a storage space... I would never get rid of the dress I wore on the night I won my Oscar. When I die, someone can have it, but not a minute before!

Sometimes when you're with somebody, and all their stuff is at your house, it's so hard to break up with them. You don't know what they're going to wreck and destroy.

One lesson I learned from 'The Monstrumologist' was never to get too attached to your own characters. That's harder in practice than in theory. At the end of the third book - which coincided with the end of my contract - I was an emotional wreck. I mourned Will Henry and Warthrop.

I've met a couple of total wrecks who've loved Bjork and ended up broken hearted. I didn't love her.

I've got re-addicted to normal people, which is the loveliest thing to write about.

When a writer knows home in his heart, his heart must remain subtly apart from it.

I can count all the ways in which being a mother has enriched my understanding of the world, of character, my sense of the future and my attachment to it. I can't imagine what kind of writer I'd be if I didn't have my kids.

It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.

Everybody is a regionalist. Tolstoy is a regionalist - one is where one lives, where one writes.

Anyone who can be home anywhere really has no home at all.

She didn't want to say goodbye to Helia but her appetite for a dramatic occasion was immense.

Ada. Even if you run away from me like some I know, I'm still Ada.

Everybody needs to grow up and leave home sometimes. But sometimes home doesn't like it

Still, there is no law that says all decent things must be permanent. Perhaps family itself, like beauty, is temporary, and no discredit need attach to beauty, is temporary, and no discredit need attach to impermanence.

After someone's death, how strange to see the value drain away from his or her possessions; useful objects such as clothes, or dish towels, or personal papers become little more than trash.

It wasn't the amount of stuff; it was the engagement with that stuff [that mattered for happiness].

Keep in mind that to avoid loneliness, many people need both a social circle and an intimate attachment. Having just one of two may still leave you feeling lonely.

Man clings to himself and what is his, over and beyond death itself, and he is afraid to let life out of his hands—life, this most real of all things, this most pitiful of all pitiful things, the most eternal of all that is eternal.

Maybe its not a person we fall in love with so much as a distance, a depth , which that particular person happens to embody.

The denigration of those we love always detaches us from them in some degree. Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers.