Quotes About Attachment

To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go

You only miss the sun when it starts to snow, you only hit the road when you miss home, you know that you love them when you let them go.

No matter what you say or do there's no getting over someone who is meant the world for you.

The more you try to forget someone. The more you start to think about them. The more you think about someone. The more you get attached to them.

Missing someone is part of loving them. Not until you are apart do you realize how much they mean to you.

Longing hurts. but sometimes it's good to miss because only the longing shows the true importance that a person has in your life.

You don't know how much you love someone until you lose them.

You can love someone so much...But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.

Thats how you know you love someone, I guess, when you cant experience anything without wishing the other person were there to see it, too.

I know I might not mean anything to you, but it's you that means everything to me.

I don't know why I get so protective and jealous over you when you're not even mine.

I can't take back what was never mine, I can't remember what I didn't experience, and that's why I cannot move on because nothing ever started.

We don't always get to choose what we love.

He pictured Maizy here, permanently. His. He liked the idea so much it shocked him. And then he pictured her at his side when they got thrown off the land. Rylan hated to see her go. But he knew if he talked her into staying permanently, he'd end up dragging her down with him when he failed. And that would hurt worse than broken ribs any day.

The more we love, the more it hurts, and the more we have to let go.

Because I so stupidly loved her.

What good would one last good-bye do? Wouldn't it just prolong the pain?

But now I knew finding love and holding on to it were not the same thing.

I looked at her, unsure how to answer. Even after everything Mikael had done, every day I had to let go again. He was a habit in my thoughts, not any more welcome than a rash, but I'd find myself thinking of him before I even realized what I was doing. Banishing him from my thoughts was like learning to breathe in a new way. It was a conscious effort.

I only need you, Kazi, that's all I need.

I want to pull you close and never let you go," he whispered (pg 234)

Because ever since that first day I met you, I've gone to sleep every single night thinking about you, and every morning when I wake, my first thoughts are of you.

Desperate pieces of string that hold us up but at the same time keep us from being anything other than what we have always been.

I want to pull you close and never let you go.