Quotes About Attachment

Where there is no longer love, there is no longer anything.

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.

But the disparaging of those we love always alienates us from them to some extent. We must not touch our idols; the gilt comes off in our hands.

In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.

Love is for children. I owe him a debt.

I've been in true love many times. I just try to avoid it as much as possible. For if there's one thing I know about true love, it is that sooner or later, it results in a hostage situation.

I love Seattle. I couldn't be anywhere else.

I love you so much that nothing can matter to me - not even you...Only my love- not your answer. Not even your indifference

The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.

Dexter, I love you so much. So, so much, and I probably always will. I just don't like you anymore. I'm sorry.

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.

If you love someone, they leave you. But if you don't love someone, they leave you, too. So your choice isn't between loving and losing but only between loving and not loving.

She wonders if this is what people call falling in love, the desire to be with someone for every minute of the rest of her life so strong that sometimes she is frightened of herself.

Romantic love is an addiction.

Love, our subject: we've trained it like ivy to our walls.

I am strong against everything, except against the death of those I love. He who dies gains; he who sees others die loses.

There was bondage in love; no one had told her that love took away freedom.

In my childhood diary I wrote: "I have decided that it is better not to love anyone, because when you love people, then you have to be separated from them, and that hurts too much.

At first I assumed hate was the opposite of love. But it isn't. The opposite of love is indifference.

Love is not a good thing, I've decided. It just makes you afraid you'll lose what you love, and then, because your fear makes a space for that to happen, it does. What's the point?

We love without reason, and without reason we hate.

Relationships always sounded so physically painful: you fell in love, you broke a heart, you lost your head. Was it any wonder that people came through the experience with battle scars?

Goodbye -- Because I love you.

The first book we fall in love with shapes us every bit as much as the first person we fall in love with.