Quotes About Attachment

this: I have never met anyone who is so central to my existence that life without her seems incomprehensible, who I care more about than I do myself.

Kinder zu lieben, ist leicht. Sie zu behalten, ist schwer.

And let me tell you something about families they're overrated. They're a weakness. The leave you or get taken from you or they disappoint you. Families are a liability.

Ah. In my experience, when people say they don't know whether they love someone, they usually mean no. But in your case I'm not so sure. You still have feelings for her." -Virginia Dare

While I enjoy spending time in L.A., Britain is my home.

Infant great apes, like all mammals, form an early and strong attachment to their mothers.

Bannon, Conway, and Hicks—along with an assortment of more or less peculiar ideologues that had attached themselves to Trump and, of course, his family, all people without clearly monetizable reputations before their association with Trump—were, for better or worse, hitched to him.

Once you have decided to keep a certain pile, it is no longer yours; for you can't spend it.

La seule chance de survie, lorsqu'on est sincèrement épris, consiste à dissimuler à la femme qu'on aime, à feindre en toute circonstance un léger détachement.

Un tableau, ... dit pensivement Houellebecq. En tout cas, j'ai des murs pour l'accrocher. C'est la seule chose que j'aie vraiment, dans ma vie : des murs." (p. 146)

Anderzijds waren er ook dingen in de buitenwereld waar ik aan gehecht was, een uitstapje naar de G20-supermarkt bijvoorbeeld, die had veertien verschillende soorten hummus, of een wandeling in het bos [...] ik was te ver van mijn kindertijd afgedwaald, nou ja langdurige opsluiting was misschien niet de beste oplossing, maar ik geloof dat hummus de doorslag gaf.

Quiero a ese niño más que a nada en el mundo. Pero nunca he conseguido aceptar su existencia

Nu avea un discurs de psihiatru tipic, în fine, era suportabil. Îmi amintesc c?-mi sugera s? m? "eliberez de leg?turi"; p?rea mai curând o tr?nc?neal? budist?. Ce s? eliberez? Toat? fiinÈ›a mea era o leg?tur?.

nostalgia has nothing to do with aesthetics, it's not even connected to happy memories. We feel nostalgia for a place simply because we've lived there; whether we lived well or badly scarcely matters.

Bound to you as the rays are to the sun.

You can't run away from home. It's not home if you want to run away from it.

Children raised by the I-Can't-Say-No parent often grow up too quickly, suffer from chronic boredom, think that rules don't apply to them, become poor money managers, are unable to cultivate healthy emotional boundaries with others, and have an unhealthy attachment to you in adulthood.

I'm too selfish to leave you," I said. Noah pulled back so I could see his smile. I'm too selfish to let you.

Had I first come to the AUUCC when Tom was the senior minister, I might have cathected with him as profoundly as I had with Sparlo—and there were many people at the AUUCC who had; they adored Tom and came to church to hear him, and might never attach as ardently to any other minister. Like baby ducks, we were imprinted by the one we knew first.

There's something to be said for geographic affinity, all right.

I'm like a stray cat. If you feed me, I don't leave.

They had raised her from infancy to eight plus years of age. That's a long time and when so much of yourself is put into training, nurturing and loving a child it is like losing your own flesh and blood.

Toen klaarde haar gezicht op. 'Betekent dat dat je blijft?' 'Dat weet ik nog niet.' 'Je moet blijven.' 'Ik hoor hier niet.' Ze snoof. 'Dat weet ik ook wel. Maar er is geen enkele andere plek waar je wel hoort, toch?' Daarna lachte ze hem met haar scherpe tandjes toe, sloeg haar boog om haar schouder en liep tussen de bomen door weg.

En de uitgestotene? Spannen ze met hem samen?' 'Nee,' mompelde het meisje. 'Maar ze zijn wel met hem verbonden. Hij door het bot, zij door het hart.