Quotes About Attachment

She might not be bound to him, but she was still his Shadow Girl.

Una gelosia em sortia de dins i m'enterbolia, una gelosia de mi mateix, de tot el que havia mort en mi a cada petita estona de respirar; el que jo havia estat, jo l'estimava.

This is the thing about being a parent," she said. "Do a good job, and your kids feel like they can take on the entire world, and sometimes that involves a world that's not anywhere near you. Do a lousy job, and they cling to your skirt and suck their thumbs—which is not so attractive in an adult person—but you do get to see them. Like all the time. You've got to let go, Annie." "I've

I realized that in order to fully pass this threshold of the self-healing journey after narcissistic abuse, I had to surrender my ego's attachment to the false sense of security that I had created through isolation and not risking my heart in relationships.

Sweet like syrup of ipecac, she leaves my system with my guts in her hands.

A morte, afinal, é uma corda que nos amarra as veias.

Quem acha doce a terra natal ainda é um tenro principiante; aquele para quem toda a terra é natal já é forte; mas é perfeito aquele para quem o mundo inteiro é um lugar estrangeiro. A alma tenra fixou seu amor num único ponto do mundo; a pessoa forte estendeu o seu amor a todos os lugares; o homem perfeito extinguiu o seu. (Hugo de St. Victor, monge saxão do século XII, citado por Edward Said)

You're gonna be a freaking appendage in their lives. They'll have a mother and an appendage.

In fact, when I finally shuffle off this mortal coil, you will have to pry a book out of my cold, dead hands.

I am delighted to be back home in Galway, the place I first came to as a 19-year-old in 1960. It's here where my heart is and will forever be.

It is very hard. Man longs for a permanent home. But he does not know it until it is torn away from him.

It's impossible to lose that which does not belong to you.

If you have never wept bitter tears because a wonderful story has come to an end and you must take your leave of the characters with whom you have shared so many adventures, whom you have loved and admired, for whom you have hoped and feared, and without whose company life seems empty and meaningless. If such things have not been part of your own experience, you probably won't understand what Bastian did next.

I want a man who watches me walk away.

What is intuitive to most parents was clarified by biological research: families matter. In the last two decades, scientists in the area of attachment research have shown just how dependent children are on the parents and close extended family for life success.

For a man, graceful love is immensely difficult, and nearly impossible, if his relationship with his mother is not fully understood.

be here. The Apex Valley was his home, even though he lived in Chicago. This was where he wanted to be, and for three days, he and Angela hadn't

This morning I awoke clutching your name with such reckless devotion that it turned to dust.

You raise them half-decent, and they grow up and leave. They move to Miami or California-- someplace with gourmet groceries and nude beaches because you've reared them to cook good and be liberal minded. It's just the opposite with your failures-- them kids stick to your tail like a cocklebur. You'd think it would be the other way around, but it's not. No matter how old I get, this will always amaze me.

He'd been crazy about her for more years than he cared to admit. Unfortunately, he knew nothing would ever come of it, so he would have to settle for proximity and hope that like a mold or a fungus, he would eventually grow on her.

I had never liked my parents so much that I wished to be reminded of them every time I walked into a room. I

I can hate you more, but I'll never love you less.

I wonder why things always seem most real to us when we lose them, he said softly.

They trap us like that - babies- with one look they can take hold of our hearts because our hearts have no defences against such beauty and fragility.