Quotes About Attachment

She needed someone to worship; he needed slavish devotion. They became inseparable companions.

When you get back together with an old boyfriend, it's pathetic. It's like having a garage sale and buying your own stuff back.

They could not love Rosalind as much as they loved Olivia because they knew she could be taken from them.

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

because we all know that the books we've loved best are seldom the ones we esteem the most highly

You got to start thinking, and you've got to let go of the idea that you're something special to somebody, because none of us are, and if you don't, if you don't stop dreaming about that, you're going to end up all snap-snap-snapped to pieces.

debe ser cierto eso de que quienes han compartido sábanas nunca se apartan del todo.

Te sobra el nombre cuando no tienes quien te llame con afecto.

That was his problem, you see, staying in love. When you fall in love as quickly as Gaspare did, when you can be swayed by the merest hint of feeling, the merest hitch in the blood, you can fall out of love just as fast - with places, with jobs, with women.

Our world is rampant with idolatry. Cars, computers, television, careers, success, political movements, and religious leaders own our hearts—rather than God. Idols are everything to which we are deeply attached, that take the place that belongs solely to God. These idols are our known and unknown replacements for God. We create them in order to control our world or to attempt to define and control God.

I was a cat person, too. At least, I thought I was. But I couldn't help wondering if it was possible for an independent, curious cat person to be having a please-love-me, don't-leave-me, desperate, doggy kind of day

I hope someone will be lost without me someday.

She knew in that moment what it felt like to want to own another being, declare them as yours.

How long, I wonder, does it take a thing or a place or even a person to feel like home?

Does not a child recognize her own mother?

Emotional attachments are messy. They end with broken hearts and stalking.

When people start liking people, that's when someone has the ability to get hurt.

He takes a chicken tender and dunks it into the honey mustard. Something about that makes me sad. Because all the little things about him, like the way he loves honey mustard and the way he always forgets the cheese on my burger, aren't mine anymore. It's weird that everything can be the same, that he can go on liking honey mustard, and yet everything is different.

Because, let's face it—no matter how much you tell yourself you're over someone, your heart knows the truth.

where love and desire are concerned, there are no adequate examples; and all of our objects must bear the burden of exemplifying and failing what drives our attachment to them.

That's love. Real love is scary. Because you know what you stand to lose.

Mrs. Beverly Jean Reinhoffer is our cat, of whom Chris has full custody. I never liked her and was glad to see her go.

She was incapable of dragging herself away from him; Even though talking over the situation with him had shattered her, being without him would have been even worse,as if it were only his presence that was stopping the pieces flying away in all directions.

I step back, farther inside the salon. Watching Luca surrounded by girls, all vying for his attention, Elisa attached to him like a nasty growth that will need extensive surgery to remove, is not my idea of a fun time.