Quotes About Attachment

The trick of being abandoned was never to let yourself long for anyone who left

No," Max corrected. "You and I are friends. Grayson is the physical manifestation of your avoidant attachment style. He won't let himself want you. You don't want to want to be wanted. Everybody stays at arm's length. Nobody gets hurt, and nobody gets any.

Jameson Winchester Hawthorne loved me. He loved me, and I loved him.

Reggie's earliest memory of her mother began with her mother balancing an egg on its end and ended with Reggie losing her left ear.

Think of me. Remember me. Love me.

I remember her hand in mine and how that felt, as if something and someone belonged to me.

As she rattles on, about Violet, about Gemma Sterling, about the Bartlett Dirt, I don't say anything else. I suddenly don't want Bren or Charlie to talk about Violet, because I want to keep her to myself, like the Christmas I was eight—back when Christmases were still good—and got my first guitar, which I named No Trespassing, as in no one could touch it but me.

I will always be here, in the offerings and people I left behind.

I wonder if this is the way it will be next year if I come to New York, or wherever I go—me trying to concentrate on college, on life, when all I'm doing is thinking about him. I wonder if he'll come with me, or if our built-in ending is high school.

Because it always ends the same, right? You have a good time and they have a good time and everyone's having fun, and then once the chase is over, suddenly they start chasing after someone else like you never existed. Besides, I like being me too much.

A house you came to love was like a person, and loved you back, and then you belonged to it forever.

So I knew then that she loved me; and I therefore loved her. I have always known that I will inevitably fall in love with any woman who loves me.

The moon is closer to us now than are the fig trees of our departed village. you accept all these wonders - why not mine too?

el árbol, donde arraiga, allí se queda. Le cortan los brazos; le hieren el tronco; llora por la herida su savia, que es su sangre... pero no se arranca a si mismo, porque no puede; no anda, porque lo suejta la tierra con su dulce pesadumbre...

If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger: I should not seem a part of it. My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods: time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes trees. My love for Heatcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.

Mi cariño a Heathcliff es como son las rocas del fondo de la tierra, que permanecen eternamente iguales sin cambiar jamás. Es un afecto del que no puedo prescindir.

My great miseries in this world have been Heathcliff's miseries, and I watched and felt each from the beginning: my great thought in living is himself. If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger: I should not seem a part of it.

He... was attached by ties stronger than reason could break -- chains, forged by habit, which it would be cruel to attempt to loosen.

Ma grande raison de vivre, c'est lui. Si tout le reste périssait et que lui demeurât, je continuerais d'exister ; mais si tout le reste demeurait et que lui fût anéanti, l'univers me deviendrait complètement étranger, je n'aurais plus l'air d'en faire partie.

Si perecieran todas las demás cosas pero me quedara él, podría seguir viviendo. Si, en cambio, todo lo demás permaneciera y él fuera aniquilado, el mundo se me volvería totalmente extraño y no me parecería formar parte de él.

The greatest punishment we could invent for her was to keep her separate from him…

My great miseries in this world have been Heathcliff's miseries, and I watched and felt each from the beginning... If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn into a mighty stranger.

Se tutto il resto perisse, tranne lui, continuerei a esistere; e se tutto il resto rimanesse, e lui fosse annientato, l'universo mi sarebbe estraneo. Non ne farei più parte.

You shall not leave me in that temper. I should be miserable all night, and I won't be miserable for you!