Quotes About Attachment

Love is like a Chinese mobile, comes with no guarantee.

I was always holding onto people, and they were always leaving.

Do you mind living alone?" she asked. "I've tried it both ways," he replied, "and I know it can be a letdown to come home to an empty apartment, but now I have the Siamese to greet me at the door. They're good companions; they need me; they're always happy to see me come home. On the other hand, they're always glad to see me go out—one of the things that cats do to keep a person from feeling too important.

leave me," Japhrimel snarled. "You will not leave me to wander the earth alone—breathe, damn you, breathe!

It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.

It was only a button. It was only a bit of thread. From a wrinkled blue dress I had once undone.

That night at Gertie's when she asked me if I preferred to be the one who loved slightly more or loved slightly less. More, I said. Not this time, she said in my ear. I am the one who will always love more. I didn't say, But I love without needing to own. Because I didn't know the difference then.

Thing about boats is, you can always sell them if you don't like them. Can't sell kids.

What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child?

Love is the chain to lock a child to its parent.

That's the thing about loving someone. You no longer own your heart, and that small, beating organ can turn on you without warning and shred you from the inside out.

he goes about attaching the wench to the undercarriage.

I couldn't deal with the kind of need for a man that had ruled my mother's life - the kind of need that made it impossible to breath when self-worth was wrapped up in "I love yous.

The sense of dependence and the narcissism that were to mark, and sometimes ruin, Sylvia's relationships in the future clearly originated in her childhood fear of abandonment.

Love is a bridge that links us heart to heart Mother and child can never live apart.

Wherever I fly from my own dear nest, I always come back, for home is the best.

The only thing that matters in the end is what loves you back.

Lionel Richie

He was already intuiting that attachment - if only to a squirt gun - made him vulnerable.

Between ourselves, I've started to worry that in some backhanded way I've become attached to the disfigurement of my own life.

clingy". It's an ugly word, isn't it, that describes the honey of the heart as a sticky, pestersome substance that won't brush off.

the definition of the truly foreign locale is one that fosters a piercing and perpetual yearning to go home.

Money is emotional," Lowell pronounced. "Because all value is subjective, money is worth what people feel it's worth.

Though surely to avoid attachments for fear of loss is to avoid life.