Quotes About Attachment

I feel like marching into my parents' room and shaking my mom. How could you send her to that place without her blanket?

To be interested in something is to be involved in what is essentially a stressful relationship with that thing, to suffer anxiety on its behalf.

They really do occupy a scrumptious little dark corner of my heart!

One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.

People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.

But he died of distemper when he was eleven months old. I do not know if little dogs cause as large griefs when they die as big ones; but I settled there should be no more dogs—big or little—for me.

We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.

Where the hell would I go without you, Kate? No matter where I went, you would be there in my head. I would miss you every moment of my life.

Eight years had passed. Everything about me had changed, but I was still in love with Derek Gaunt.

He let her go almost immediately, but he'd packed so much into that one fierce hug: want, need, worry, reassurance...He'd protect her with his life. Strangely, it made her indignant. Nobody should have to be in the position of having another person give up their life for them. She didn't want the weight of Declan's death.

Our relationship had been doomed form the start, because it was based on grief, and unlike love, grief eventually passed.

Sometimes there is nothing left and all that's anchoring me here is knowing you'll pick a fight with me in the morning.

Contrary to popular opinion, people who have money refuse to part with it, unless they absolutely have to do it.

What good is immortality if the people you love can't be there with you?

Blood of my blood they might not be, but heart of my heart they will be.

This inn cradled me as I took my first breath. No matter how hard you try, it will never be yours." I planted the broom into the floor.

He glued the chair to my ass." Silence.

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

Men who loved you when you were twenty, and who continue to see you the way you looked then are impossible to replace.

No matter how hard they tried, they could never take all their memories with them: the best memories would remain here, between these thin walls.

Your infatuation will end in tears.

They really wanted to remain always in their own house and their own garden. There are such people.

And I was upset to find how really reluctant I was to leave my little flat. It was as if I was almost frightened. Spasms of prophetic homesickness pierced me as I rearranged the china and dusted it with my handkerchief, obsessive visions of burglaries and desecrations.

You can't kiss me and vanish.