Quotes About Attachment

The relationship I have to my fatherland is like that of mothers with crippled children: they love them all the more, the more crippled they are. Germany is the background of all my plans, the return to Germany.

The first coat I ever bought is in a plastic bag in about five pieces. It's by Sonia Rykiel. I can't wear it anymore, but I still like it.

A Tamagotchi is a beep encased in a plastic shell. It exists to haunt you with ghostly notifications that signify nothing.

Shanghai, the city where I was born and spent my first four and a half years. It's not necessarily the most pleasant or most comforting place, but I have blood memory there, my core was formed there, so I need to go back often, or else I become empty, lost, without meaning.

The first rule of negotiation is to always be willing to walk away from the deal. The first rule of happiness is to not be attached to pleasing moments.

We can finish a house, but never a home. Once you fall in love with a house, you find continual pleasures in fixing it up and making innovations that satisfy your creature's comforts.

I am a firm believer that a good plot makes for a fun enough read, but it's not what binds us. If we don't care about the characters, we won't care - not in a lasting way - about what's happening to them.

I am attached to my Blackberry. Sometimes, when I'm holding it, my other hand goes to my pocket automatically in search of it.

Favorite poems are like favorite children. We definitely have them but we never tell as the others would have their feelings hurt.

The clarinet has always been my baby. I just didn't know that for a while.

I do feel like a Clevelander. Every time, when people ask me, I automatically say, 'My home is Cleveland.'

Home is where the heart is, and my heart will forever be in Cleveland.

I am forever a Cleveland Brown.

I'm from Cleveland. I love this place. I'm never going to leave.

Cleveland is always in my heart.

Cleveland has been my life.

I've always loved Cleveland.

People move from Cleveland, then move back. It's something inside you. You can't explain it, but there's something inside - it's just home.

Part of me is afraid to get close to people because I'm afraid that they're going to leave.

Ibiza is very close to my heart.

Love is closeness.

I'm a bit of a clothes hoarder, admittedly.

I love all the clubs I play for.

I've collected a lot of things throughout my life, and I think that's more being a hoarder than being passionate about them, and so I've tried to stop that.