Quotes About Ambivalence

The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature.

Shanghai is a bastard son of a city, an offspring nobody wants until it has something worth taking.

Did I want a lawyer? Hell no, I didn't even want to be a lawyer.

Even the straightest path has two directions.

I love my job when I'm not there.

One foot in the door, the other one in the gutter; The sweet smell that they adore, I think I'd rather smother

I can't predict the future.

I was falling in love, and it was wonderful, and it was awful.

Beige is the color of indecision

Harry nearly prayed it wasn't one of her friends who smelled like the beach and books and brine. He inhaled when they stopped for the light, and was simultaneously relieved and agitated to realize, no, it was her.

No soy peronista, pero a veces por dentro, con cara de póquer, uno grita Viva Perón.)

Children of mothers who are only sometimes available and who aren't reliably attuned adapt by being ambivalently attached. Because they don't know what to expect—is she going to be the nice mommy or the yelling one?—these children develop anxiety and insecurity about the maternal relationship and, as adults, a sense of all relationships as being essentially unreliable.

Ambivalating is one of the healing processes of psychotherapy. When clients are encouraged to thoroughly explore their conflicting feelings about job or relationship issues, they eventually connect with a deep intuitive sense about what is best for them.

Survivors who want to defend their healthy ambivalence can respond to make-up-your-mind assaults by replying that the matter in question is emotional and clearly not a matter of reason or choice. I remember how my own natural

It's very hard to be a boy, " Celine commented dryly. "You're never sure whether to love something or kill it.