Quotes About Attachment

Avec l'argent, nul n'est à l'aise : ceux qui croient le détester l'idolâtrent en secret. Ceux qui l'idolâtrent le surestiment. Ceux qui feignent de le mépriser se mentent à eux-mêmes. Engouement

Grief's only ever as deep as the love it's replaced.

It is what we love the most / can make us most afraid

Mine. He was mine, and not even death would take him from me—not if I could help it.

If she tried anything, she would be sorry. Adam was mine. She had thrown him away, thrown Jesse away—and I had snatched them up. Finders keepers.

She understood his passion because she felt the same way: as if nothing was more important than the touch of her skin to his, as if she'd die if he left her.

You need to understand something," she said intently. "Charles is my husband. You can't have him. Mine. Not yours. There are lots of nice, unattachment men out there, I'm sure. Pick one of them and you might live longer." Then her body relaxed and her voice regained its usual cheeriness. "Thank you for your time, Ms. Newman.

If you want to stay here, that's something different. But thinking that you are the only one who can possibly keep her company - that's a trap." (p. 320)

Mine," he said. Adam's eyes narrowed. "I don't think so. She is mine." It would have been flattering, I thought, except that at least one of them was talking about dinner and I wasn't certain about the other.

I think some people are lucky to be so fond of a place they are going back to. But it's not lucky if they let that blind them to the place they find themselves

Perhaps 'home' can be where one comes from, as well as where one lives.

those stupid tears to well again. You're being ridiculous, you know that, don't you? You just met this guy. He can't possibly mean that much to you already. But he did! He did. She knew both her mother and Lark had been right to caution her against jumping into anything, but where Sam was concerned, Amy could no more stop

She was no more mine than the trees were mine. No more mine than the sun. And with this realization I knew that I could never be separate from her, any more than I could ever be separate from the trees or from the sun.

Byrd: It is important because we are giving her something to take away with her when she goes. Lalo: What will she take with her? Byrd: Us. Sophie: And what will we have when she's gone? Byrd looked at Sophie and shook her head because she couldn't speak

Were I a solitary creature like a salamander, none of this would trouble me. I would have no moral conflicts, no social conscience. I would feed and mate and lay my eggs. I would not fret about other salamanders, not even those hatching from my very own eggs. I would see to my own needs, and care not a whit for others. But I am a mammal, and like other mammals, I have a social brain. I am wired to care, especially about those I am attached to.

Loyalty to that which does not work, or worse, to a person who is toxic, exploitive or destructive to you, is a form of insanity.

It's like your shadow; you just can't shake it, it's always with you, and it's easy to forget about.

Chains are chains even if made of gold, they just tie you.

Alice: Is it because she's successful? Dan: No. It's because... she doesn't need me.

Someone had told him one day that you forget the voices of those whom you have been close to in the past very quickly.

She was a pretty girl with an arid heart. Her fiancé had given her a chow-chow, but she didn't take care of it and left it with various people, as she would later do with me. The chow-chow killed itself by leaping from a window. The dog appears in two or three photos, and I have to admit that he touches me deeply and that I feel a great kinship with him.

He knew it would come, and soon, maybe even this 12:07. The moment she would slip from his grasp, no matter how tightly he held on.

Never love something so much it can be used to control you.

I don't want you to go," he said, the tears dropping from his eyes, slowly at first, then spilling like a river. "I know, my love," his mother said in her heavy voice. "I know.