Quotes About Attachment

I think most people can relate to the feeling of love spilling over into obsession.

Love was love, one could find it with anyone, one could find it anywhere. It was just that you could never keep it. Not unless you were ready to die for it.

A story has to stick with those who tell it. It belongs to them. Just like the October Boy, it's got nowhere else to go.

La primera nota caraterítica del amor es la exlusividad... El amor es individual o más exactamente, interpersonal: queremos únicamente a una persona y le pedimos a esa persona que nos quiera con el mismo afecto exclusivo.

you have always been as my own. I am perplexed

I just knew that I wanted to attach myself to it. The best way for me to describe it is that something bloomed in my chest. I felt some sense of opening or wonder. I knew instinctively that the wilderness was the place that I felt most gathered.

the way you treat a child, from the time that child is born, is what sets them up to either succeed or struggle…how you were loved informs the way your important neural networks are shaped, especially those core regulatory networks

man's sentimental attachment to objects is one of life's greatest consolations.

Conrad,Nabokov, Naipaul - these are writers known for having managed to migrate between languages, cultures, countries, continents, even civilizations. Their imaginations were fed by exile, a nourishment drawn not through roots but through rootlessness. My imagination however, requires that I stay in the same street, in the same house, gazing at the same view. Istanbul's fate is my fate. I am attached to this city because it has made me who I am.

Eventually, we come to love certain novels because we have expended so much imaginative labor on them. This is why we hang on to those novels, whose pages are creased and dog-eared.

Çünkü içinizde kalbinize nakÅŸeylediÄŸiniz bir sevgilinin yüzü ya??yorsa eÄŸer, dünya hala sizin evinizdir.

I've never left Istanbul, never left the houses, streets, and neighborhoods of my childhood.

because people only tell lies when there is something they are terribly frightened of losing.

Why should we expect a city to cure us of our spiritual pains? Perhaps we cannot help loving our city like a family. But we still have to decide which part of the city we love and invent the reasons why.

When, after hours of lovemaking, we quickly dressed and left the apartment, I sometimes thought that Füsun was also taking care not to get "carried away" by her feelings for me. A proper understanding of my story depends, I think, on a full appreciation of the pleasure we took from these sweet shared moments. I am certain that the fire at the heart of my tale is the desire to relive those moments of love, and my attachment to those pleasures.

am sometimes hard-pressed to explain why I've stayed, not only in the same place but in the same building.

Pero su poder sobre mí no procedía de algo exterior, de ser un "centro de poder" ajeno, sino de mi propio deseo de gustar, de ser querido y acariciado. Por eso me resultaba tan interesante el poder que la maestra tenía sobre una clase de 25 personas

Their imaginations were fed by exile, a nourishment drawn not through roots but through rootlessness. My imagination, however, requires that I stay in the same city, on the same street, in the same house, gazing at the same view. Istanbul's fate is my fate. I am attached to this city because it has made me who I am.

I don't hate you, I love you, you're part of myself, you're my heart and when you go it's my heart torn out and carried away--

Bean could see the hunger in their eyes. Not the regular hunger, for food, but the real hunger, the deep hunger, for family, for love, for belonging.

Names come and go. They get attached to you, and then you lose them, and they get attached to someone else.

A pure soul must never grow attached to any one thing.

Yet if he lost that desire, who would he be ? What would be in his heart then, if she were gone from it ?

A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.