Quotes About Attachment

But there's a part of me that wonders what it would be like to be the most important person to someone else, to always feel like you were missing a piece of yourself when he wasn't near you.

Sometimes, I think my whole life has been about holding onto you.

You would wind up as a cat, I told her. They don't need anyone else. I need you, she replied. Well, I said. Maybe I'll come back as catnip.

Being a good mother, it seemed to me, meant you ran the risk of losing your child.

When you are pregnant, you can think of nothing but having your own body to yourself again; yet after giving birth you realize that the biggest part of you is now somehow external, subject to all sorts of dangers and disappearance, so you spend the rest of your lifet rying to figure out how to keep her close enough for for comfort.

I'm afraid that, if I let myself feel ecstatic about being with you, then when you leave me, I won't be able to pull myself back together..

Reason number 106 why dogs are smarter than humans: once you leave the litter, you sever contact with your mothers.

You can't grieve something if you don't let yourself get close enough to care.

Because our attachment to control is either unexamined or addictive, we do not understand that by relinquishing control and providing choice, we increase our influence and impact many times over.

Every time I manage to let you go, you somehow manage to sneak right back into my heart.

I forget everything else when I keep thinking of you .

Not every person who came to your life and loved you was planning to stay, to some you were just a path to their love destination.

If you have to convince someone to stay with you that means they have already left.

There's just something about you that I'm scared to lose because I know I won't find it in anyone else.

All my life I was afraid that I would never find LOVE.... And now that I've Found it, I'm afraid that I will lose it.

It's hard to forget someone who you've imagined spending forever with.

I'm not going to hold onto someone, who wants to be held by someone else.

It takes a minute to like someone, an hour to love someone, but a lifetime to forget someone.

People tend to forget the significance in the meaning of the word love.

I miss everyone. I'm way too attached to my friends.

If I hadn't met you, I wouldn't like you. If I hadn't liked you, I wouldn't love you. If I wouldn't love you, I wouldn't miss you. But I did, I do and I will.

The only pain which you cant feel is in your absence, so please never go away.

Friendship often turns into love, but love never into friendship. Quite sad.

The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent