Quotes About Attachment

She had taken him over when he wasn't looking . When he'd been so busy binding her to him. Wanting his own woman for all the wrong reasons and realizing when he had her, what the right reasons were.

There are all kinds of ways to make love. If it's good, that's what you need. But going back to your Gary. You cling to him because he made you feel grounded. Everything around you was so different and you didn't know how to handle it. I think you do love him, Gabrielle, but I don't think you're in love with him. If you were in love with him, you wouldn't feel as if all your loyalty should belong to Aleksei.

The feelings of conquest and possession mixing with love were a heady combination. Those traits were deep in him and she accepted him without judgment. How could he not be in love with her?

Damn it, Ken. I'm so fucking in love with her. This isn't part of Whitney's experiment; he couldn't make me feel like this no matter what he planted between us.

Fuck no, he wasn't saving her. [...] he was keeping her for himself.

I feel like you woke me up and now I can't live without you.

He wanted her loyalty. Her faithfulness. Her love. That was the bottom line. He wanted Ania to fall so deeply in love with him, she would never consider leaving him.

The problem, he decided, was that once your heart was involved, all logic went out the window.

The closer you are to death, the more attached you become to life

Cats have short lives. It's how they punish you for getting attached to them. She couldn't last forever.

But George is getting old. Won't it very soon be too late? Never use those words to George. He won't listen. He daren't listen. Damn the future. Let Kenny and the kids have it. Let Charley keep the past. George clings only to Now. It is Now that he must find another Jim. Now that he must love. Now that he must live....

You don't even have a cat or a dog or anything? You think I should? George asks, a bit aggressive. The poor old guy doesn't have anything to love, he thinks Kenny is thinking. Hell, no! Didn't Baudelaire say they're liable to turn into demons and take over your life?

It is strange how people seem to belong to places - especially to places where they were not born...

George makes himself remembers. He is afraid of forgetting. Jim is my life, he says. But he will have to forget, if he wants to go on living. Jim is death.

We must remember that nothing in this world really belongs to us. At best, we are merely borrowers.

My teeth were nice commodities, and I did enjoy having kidneys, but I'd give them all away if someone threatened to take my Slayer albums from me.

Is it so hard for you to give up what you never had?

Foo shuddered. It had been less than an hour since the cops led Abby away and already he missed her like a severed limb. It was embarrassing. How could hormones and hydrostatic pressure make you feel like this? Love was very unscientific.

No, Charlie said. I'm not losing you after just finding you. You stay here. You creep! What gives you the right to be that way. I just found you, too. Yeah, but I'm not much of a find.

I warn you, Eragon, beware of whom you fall in love with, for fate seems to have a morbid interest in our family.

My ring now, he told himself. I have to stop thinking of it as Brom's.

always so; those closest to the heart cause the most pain. Thou will have no dowry from me, snake

Quiera yo, al entrar en este lugar, comprender mi transitoriedad y olvidar mi apego a todo aquello que amo.

You can never hate strongly unless you have loved strongly