Quotes About Attachment

pues se puede sentir pena por una casa o por un lugar. Y más por una casa y un lugar que tanto significaron para mí en un tiempo y que aún seguían significándolo como comprobé al regresar a ellos después de años sin verlos.

Fui tan feliz en aquella ciudad que, cuando me acordaba de ella, la mitificaba como los emigrantes hacen con sus países.

You don't want to let go, but don't want to be hurt, either.

You don't want to let go, but don't want to be hurt, either. It's not a great place to be but what can I tell you?

But beautiful girl above all beautiful girls,' he wrote back, 'This is my home.

Motherfucker was like three hundred years old, but because he had a car and a record collection and foto albums from his Vietnam days and because he bought her clothes to replace the old shit she was wearing, Nilda was all lost on him.

The sadness you feel is not your own. It's his sadness you feel in your heart, Amy, for missing you.

The only thing he could come up with was the story of Joseph and Mary and the flight into Egypt—a boyhood memory, because Grey hadn't been to church in years. Joseph had always seemed like an odd duck, taking care of a woman who was carrying somebody else's baby. But Grey was beginning to see the sense in it, how a person could become attached just by being wanted.

It's love that enslaves us.

That was when you got to actually liking people, which was a problem. Things fell apart fast after that.

For the first time in my life, I felt the pain of missing people I had not yet left.

Death is to be feared because of the pain and loss it inflicts through love, and for no other reason.

It's sheer spitefulness to allow mortals to love because everybody dies but the love they cause to be in others doesn't die with them. Therefore love is the cause of the greatest sorrow therefore love is the greatest evil.

That's one thing about human beings I don't see the point in: love. It does nobody any good. You love someone, and either they let you down or they die.

So long as man clamours for the I and Mine, his works are as naught: When all love of the I and the Mine is dead, then the work of the Lord is done.

When I gave up the tying of ribbons, still I tied my garment about me: When I gave up tying my garment, still I covered my body in its folds. So when I give up passion, I see that anger remains; And when I renounce anger, greed is still with me still; And when greed is vanquished, pride and vainglory remain; When the mind is detached and casts Maya away,still it clings to the latter. Kabir says, 'Listen to me, dear Sadhu! the true path is rarely found.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.

His answer, given to me with tears in his eyes: 'Damn it, I happen to love this country.

I thought about all the places I could spend that break, and frankly, the only one I cared about was here, in your arms. I'm crazy about you, you know." Loving Summer by Kailin Gow

I guess crushes that have lasted for years don't go away that easily.", Loving Summer by Kailin Gow

I find myself thinking of you, and how meaningless anything with any girl who isn't you is.", Loving Summer by Kailin Gow

Summer had always had a crush on Nat, though, ever since she was five years old. No one, no boy had ever been able to shake her out of her crush on Nat, so at least that was a good thing about Drew. ", Loving Summer by Kailin Gow

what emotion is stronger than love?", Falling (FADE #2) by Kailin Gow

Relationships--of all kinds--are like sand held in your hand. Held loosely, with an open hand, the sand remains where it is. The minute you close your hand and squeeze tightly to hold on, the sand trickles through your fingers. You may hold onto some of it, but most will be spilled. A relationship is like that. Held loosely, with respect and freedom for the other person, it is likely to remain intact. But hold too tightly, too possessively, and the relationship slips away and is lost.