Quotes About Attachment

And love and attachment?' asked Gamache. 'Mothers and children are classic examples. Some mothers see their job as preparing their kids to live in the big old world. To be independent, to marry and have children of their own. To live wherever they choose and do what makes them happy. That's love. Others, and we all see them, cling to their children. Move to the same city, the same neighborhood. Live through them. Stifle them. Manipulate, use guilt-trips, cripple them.

I don't love you any less, but I can't love you anymore.

Sustenance for the infant and child is more than alimentary nourishment. The child needs love, security, narcissistic supplies -- however one may describe it.

Watcha gonna do when I'm gone, Maggie?" you kept asking over and over, the other time, when you were going to London. "I'll do macrame, punk." "Whatcha gonna do when I'm gone, Maggie?" "You really think I need you that bad?" "Yes," you said. A simple Nebraska statement.

the fact that most people live and die where they were born, or they leave home and live somewhere else for decades but come back to pass away, like migrating birds

Abby liked her too, I think, even though she was so attached to his first wife, whatshername, basement stairs, laundry, ducks, Newburyport, the fact that Revere Ware pots have that nice copper bottom, which keeps stuff from burning or something.

The valuations which result in determination of definite prices are different. Each party attaches a higher value to the good he receives than to that he gives away. The exchange ratio, the price, is not the product of equality of valuation, but on the contrary, the product of a discrepancy in valuation.

If you are a mother, you must have someone to take care of. If that someone is taken from you, whether it is a newborn or an individual old enough to have offspring of its own, can you still call yourself a mother?

The bond between a mother and a child weighed nothing on a scale; it took up no room in a test tube. But most of us would have a hard time saying it didn't exist.

Just because you leave someone doesn't mean you ever let them go. Even when you couldn't see me, you knew deep down I was still there.

I didn't cry when she got on the plane. She lived with me for four years, and when she walked away, I didn't feel much of anything at all

Wenn jemand starb, dem du dein Herz geschenkt hattest, nahm er es dann mit?

But he was giving her back her heart, so that when he left her life, there would be no strings attached.

I want her to be safe. I want her to be mine.

The first person you fell in love with stole your heart. The first person you made love with stole your soul. And if these were one and the same, you were damned.

don't ever recover from losing someone you love—even the ones you leave behind because you're better off without them.

As it turns out, you can love someone too much. Then, when they leave, your heart goes missing. And no on can survive that great a loss.

if there is a garden of maybes, you are the invasive plant I can't ever get rid of.

Given my mother's experience with romance, I shouldn't even care - 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.

Si le das el corazón a alguien y luego muere, ¿se lo lleva consigo?

The problem is that anchors don't just keep you from floating away. Sometimes, they drag you down.

He] has always been my anchor. The problem is that anchors don't just keep you from floating away. Sometimes, they drag you down.

When you love someone, you'll do anything you can to keep them with you.

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