Quotes About Attachment

Yet the room was all in all to me, Estella being in it.

Why did you get married?" said Scrooge. "Because I fell in love." "Because you fell in love!" growled Scrooge,

But, like many fond parents, I have in my heart of hearts a favourite child. And his name is David Copperfield

I do not find it easy to get sufficiently far away from this Book, in the first sensations of having finished it, to refer to it with the composure which this formal heading would seem to require. My interest in it, is so recent and strong; and my mind is so divided between pleasure and regret—

You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read, since I first came here, the rough common boy whose poor heart you wounded even then.

You know that I am always with him to the full extent of the time allowed, and that I should be with him all day long, if I could. And when I come away from him, you know that my thoughts are with him.

me, though he had business relations with me many years ago, and we are now intimate; I will say with the fair daughter to whom he is so devotedly attached, and who is so devotedly attached to him? Believe me, Miss Pross, I don't approach the topic with you, out of curiosity, but out of zealous interest." "Well! To the best of my understanding, and bad's the best, you'll tell me," said Miss Pross, softened by the tone of the apology, "he is afraid of the whole subject.

I loved Joe - perhaps for no better reason in those early days than because the dear fellow let me love him

No less a question than this: Whether he should allow himself to fall in love with Pet?

like many fond parents, I have in my heart of hearts a favourite child. And his name is DAVID COPPERFIELD.

Thank you paper clips, for being like staples that can't commit.

Since I have no sweet flower to send you, I enclose my heart.

Love is the thread that binds us.

"You must love this place very much," said Miss Fenn... "So many homes are like twenty others. But this is unique, and you seem to know every cranny of it. I dare say you could never love another home so well." "Oh, I carry it with me," said Deronda... "To most men their early home is no more than a memory of their early years... The image is never marred. There's no disappointment in memory, and one's exaggerations are always on the good side."

To-day we reverently thank the abolitionists. Earth has produced no grander men, no nobler women. They were the real philanthropists, the true patriots... heroes. He loves his country best who strives to make it best. Mere politicians wish the country to do something for them, true patriots desire to do something for their country... [P]atriotism without principle is the prejudice of birth — the animal attachment to place.

How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you — you leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the fences — little rags and shreds of your very life.

No man actually owns a fortune; it owns him.

The important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.

The past is our only real possession in life. It is the one piece of property of which time cannot deprive us; it is our own in a way that nothing else in life is. In a word, we are our past; we do not cling to it, it clings to us.

It is because people live in the things they possess instead of in their relationship to God that God seems at times to be cruel.

I'm often dating people, but I don't say it because you sort of know it won't last long.

he may love you, he may miss you, but ultimately he's just not that into you.

There's nothing worse than a label to cement people's loyalties.

There's a subtle yet significant difference between leaving our jobs, friends, and romances because we're complete and staying with them because of the fear that there's nothing else for us!