Quotes About Attachment

He was suffering from wanderlust, complicated by the tension of knowing that he was rooted to this town by something as simple as his name.

The reason you hold on to someone too tightly isn't always to protect them—sometimes it's to protect yourself.

I meant I like feeling you're mine.

I think it is a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is. —Vladimir Nabokov

Saugumas-tik miražas; vargu ar turi reikšm?s, kad esi pririštas, jei kitas lyno galas atsirišo.

Do you know what it's like to love someone so much, that you can't see yourself without picturing her? Or what it's like to touch someone?

Sometimes I think there's no such thing as falling in love. It's just the fear of losing someone.

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

if the only love you had ever known was conditional, so was the absence of it.

I've had cartons of milk that have lasted longer than most of my relationships.

Just because you leave someone doesn't mean you ever let them go.

So maybe there is a place in your life you wear out like a rut, or even better, like the soft spot on the couch. And no matter what else happens to you, you come back to that.

Logically, I understand that it wasn't Edward's fault my family fell apart after he left. But when you're eleven years old, you don't give a fuck about logic. You just really miss holding your big brother's hand.

Sunnie. Sometimes you got to think about whether you want someone to be a piece of fabric that fits into your life or not. As you sew the strips in, they become a part of what you do, how you think, how you end up. Good or bad, that's something you can never rip out and remake.

From the moment I own a book, even before I open it to the first page, I feel that it has in some way changed my life. I treat my books the same way I treat my clothes or my shoes or my records: I use them.

We need to be free if we are to love.

I would have made her a part of me. If I could, I would have had a notch cut in my already aging side and a slip of her, my young rose, inserted there and lashed to me with twine.

For even at such a tender age I knew that there is always a lover and a loved, and knew which one, in this case, I would be.

It occurs to me that even though Zoya and I are both still alive, my life is already over. She will be taken from me soon and there will be no reason for me to continue without her. We are one person, you see. We are GeorgyandZoya.

I never really noticed it any more, in the way that one often ignores familiar things, like seat cushions or loved ones.

Bruno: Me parece que no puedo dejarlo. Me parece que no quiero.

The more emotionally deprived a person has been, the stronger his fantasy bond. And paradoxical as it sounds, the more a person has been abandoned, the more he tends to cling to and idealize his family and his parents. Idealizing parents also extends to the way they raised you.

If the parent were to let the child express those feelings, it would threaten his own defenses. The parent must stop the child's feelings of neediness and pain so that he doesn't have to feel his own feelings of neediness and pain.

An infant is born with a clenched fist; a man dies with an open hand. Life has a way of prying free the things we think are so important.