Quotes About Attachment

I'm not really clear what the whole deal is with flags. I like my flag, but I wouldn't die for it. There's issues of identity, of course. That's going to always come in. I, for example, don't want to be called a 'North Britisher.' I want to be Scottish.

I get very sentimental, I get very nostalgic, and when I live in a place, I instantly put down way too many roots.

I'm not talking about any one team but everyone knows how I feel about New York. I really enjoyed my time there.

I think if you're about to lose someone and you're lucky not to, that bond intensifies because the notion of that is never gonna go away.

I am notorious for always having two beagles with me, in any and all circumstances.

I'm a novelist, so I can't write about ideas unless they're attached to people.

I don't know if a novelist ever fully detaches him- or herself from what they wrote and the way they wrote it. I can watch 'Presumed Innocent' again and again, and I will always be bothered by the same things that will never bother anybody else.

Love of place is one of the characteristics I enjoy most about novelists.

I think it would be bad to a truly successful celebrity person, because I know these novelists where people get a cult following, and they have some strange personal attachment to them because it's so personal to read a book.

I love nursing my babies. It's such a special bond for me.

My home nurtured in me an early attachment to books and other things of the intellect, to music, and to the out of doors.

In a nutshell, I love Michigan.

I've always littered my songs with jokes. You might need to dig a little deeper to find the humor, but I would totally object to being some kind of distraught personality. I've never tried to attach myself to that.

I admire writers who can remain objective and distanced, but that doesn't seem to be in my toolbox somehow. I have to care, I have to have skin in the game.

I don't fall in love with inanimate objects. I don't bond with them. I only fall in love with people.

I was attached to 'Sharp Objects' before 'Big Little Lies,' actually.

I'm constantly falling in love with objects, and they follow me around the world.

I don't fetishize objects.

I've always had a problem with over-identification with inanimate objects.

Ladies, you know when you are really into a man, it is hard to see any red flags because you choose to ignore them. Yes, love is truly blind. Sometimes it takes an outside person to observe the situation.

Hair is a huge part of who I am and what I obsess over - I've had long hair my entire life.

I don't understand the mentality of a rock fan, being obsessed with two or three songs from 25 years ago. I'm not that kind of a fan.

I'm obsessed with my children.

I'm obsessed with my parents.