Quotes About Attachment

People seem to get used to anything, and it is a short step from adaptation to attachment.

I rock in his arms under the stars and the blanket of night air, unwilling or unable to tear myself away.

Without differentiating from parents or caretakers we may never succeed in living our own lives.

Infatuation was weather - love was climate.

even though Im no longer with her, she's still a part of me? You know, the part of love that isn't about sex, it doesn't automatically die. Or at least it doesn't have to.

He left immediately, of course. He never wasted a beat when it came to Scarlett. She was his lifeforce, his meaning. He was nothing before Scarlett and he would return to nothing after her. When she needed him, he came to life, like a marionette taken out of a box.

No child wants to feel that they weren't wanted, even if they don't care much for the abandoner.

He wasn't mine anywhere except in my heart.

If only I could visit you as a foreigner goes into a new country, learn the language of you, wander past all borders into every private and secret place, I would stay forever. I would become a citizen of you.

He had found my worst weakness: I was one of those people who was desperate to be needed, to matter to someone.

Please come to me, Cat, because there's no surviving you. You don't have to love me back. You don't have to be mine. Just let me be yours.

Babies were dangerous . . . they made you fall in love before you knew what was happening.

I didn't think there was any way to convince Jack that he wanted more than I had to give, that to people who'd been damaged the way I had been, fear and the will to survive would always be more powerful than attachment. I could only love in a limited way

If I had the right, I would forbid you to go anywhere without me. Not out of selfishness, but because being apart from you is like trying to live without breathing.

We were each other's only link to the past . . . that was the strength of our bond, and also our weakness.

I figured I couldn't love you as much as I do, without you feeling something for me too.

I tried, after I wrote 'Twilight,' to read 'The Historian,' because it was the big thing that summer. But I can't read other people's vampires. If it's too close, I get upset; if it's too far away, I get upset. It just makes me very neurotic.

I was sad when Van Gaal left the national team, but I was also sad when Hiddink left.

I absolutely adore Vancouver, it's really been my second home.

I'm living in L.A. but my heart's in Vancouver.

I love my books, and with all their dog-ears and under-linings they are irreplaceable, but I sometimes wish they'd just vanish.

If you ask the Polish people, I believe that a vast majority of them would say they are pleased with E.U. membership, but also a majority consider very highly the sovereignty and independence of Poland - they are very attached to Polish tradition.

I feel very connected to Las Vegas. It's my hometown.

I'm not going to get rid of my house in Vegas. I love that house.