Quotes About Attachment

What's the big deal—you've read it, haven't you?" Then he'd take them down to the used-book store and sell them for peanuts. He never got anything close to what they were worth. He didn't like them cluttering up the house, or even my room. They weren't going to get my books.

A soul is only set free when it becomes constrained by the bonds of love.

Ändå jämrade sig minnet och sade: Riv inte, det är mina hus. Ni får inte slakta Klara! Varför inte, frågade då förnuftet, och minnet svarade: Därför att det är i denna del av världen som du har upplevt de klarvaknaste och mest spännande timmarna i ditt liv. Därför att alla dessa Klaras hus varit kulisser åt dina drömmar, bakgrunder till dina vandringar, vittnen till dina konspirationer.

You are very fond of this Rayojini creature. Therefore, she must be an extremely intriguing individual.

I'm very possessive of Daniel," he said. "I don't want anyone else dabbling with his talents.

To be apart from Min would be like dying for him, and no gloves of fur and snakeskin could stroke away the pain.

This is my home. You've made it so.

The only person who cared about him now was Leeth, and her intensity often irritated him.

He has touched you, enfolded you. You are his.

Daniel had passed the point where he could tell himself to drop Owen Winter's friendship. He'd tried it in the past, but Owen only had to appear again and Daniel would be powerless.

Shan had lived here, in close proximity to Taropat every day. Tayven felt a barb in his heart. Jealousy.

Lily and Owen, he wanted to keep near him, and would not surrender them.

Louis had seemed pleased about the cat. Verity knew her father thought that caring for the animal would be good for her, but his misguided sentimentality did not gall her enough to throw the creature out.

She is very attached to you, even though I think she only realised while I was with her that you were a real person, and not a phantom of her mind.

I realised he loved them very much, his little nation.

Do not fall in love with someone when that love is heavily dependent on the goodwill and kindness of your parents.

Engkau memintaku untuk melupakan cintaku, seakan-akan cinta itu disebabkan oleh oleh kemanjaanku. Kau tidak menyadari bahwa cinta sejati, cinta yang muncul dari jiwa yang paling dalam, meningkatkan kemampuan untuk mengabdi. Memintaku untuk melupakan cintaku, sama saja seperti kau memintaku untuk melupakan keimananku pada Tuhan dan kekuatanku untuk mengabdi

Ghosts don't haunt us. That's not how it works. They're present among us because we won't let go of them.

Ghosts don't haunt us. That's not how it works. They're present among us because we won't let go of them." "I don't believe in ghosts," I said, faintly. "Some people can't see the color red. That doesn't mean it isn't there," she replied.

If I appeal to you for emotional connection and you respond intellectually to a problem, rather than directly to me, on an attachment level I will experience that as "no response." This is one of the reasons that the research on social support uniformly states that people want "indirect" support, that is, emotional confirmation and caring from their partners, rather than advice.

When love doesn't work, we hurt. Indeed, "hurt feelings" is a precisely accurate phrase, according to psychologist Naomi Eisenberger of the University of California. Her brain imaging studies show that rejection and exclusion trigger the same circuits in the same part of the brain, the anterior cingulate, as physical pain.

Hot sex doesn't lead to secure love; rather, secure attachment leads to hot sex—and also to love that lasts. Monogamy is not a myth.

Bowlby came to believe that disrupted relationships with parents or surrogate caregivers could cripple healthy emotional and social growth, producing alienated and angry individuals. In 1944, Bowlby published a seminal article, "Forty-Four Juvenile Thieves," observing that "behind the mask of indifference is bottomless misery and behind apparent callousness, despair.

The first and foremost instinct of humans is neither sex nor aggression. It is to seek contact and comforting connection.