Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth.
Jane AustenTags: wealth poverty attachment
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be obtained only by someone who is detached.
Simone WeilTags: reality attachment detachment simone-weil
Home's where you go when you run out of homes.
John le CarréTags: roots home homecoming homelessness anchoring attachment belonging
It's harder to pick and choose when you're dead. It's like a photograph, you know. It doesn't matter as much.
Neil GaimanTags: truth perspective death death-and-dying etiquette attachment significance self-censorship
From the dear comes grief;
From the dear comes fear.
If you're freed from the dear
You'll have no grief, let alone fear.
Tags: fear loss grief attachment buddhist v-212
Well, well -- the prizes all go to the women who 'play their cards well' -- but if they can only be won in that way, I would rather lose the game ... [C]lever [women] bide their time -- make themselves indispensable first, and then se font prier [=play hard to get]. Clever -- but I can't do it.
Dorothy L. SayersTags: honesty deception tricks men women marriage attachment cleverness permanency
If ever you do go back, what is it you want of Evesham?"
"Do I know? [...] The silence, it might be ... or the stillness. To have no more running to do ... to have arrived, and have no more need to run. The appetite changes. Now I think it would be a beautiful thing to be still.
Tags: roots home homecoming completion stillness homelessness anchoring attachment belonging arrival fullfilment journey-s-end
People seem to get used to anything, and it is a short step from adaptation to attachment.
Lionel ShriverTags: adaptation attachment
He was already intuiting that attachment - if only to a squirt gun - made him vulnerable.
Lionel ShriverTags: attachment vulnerable
Though surely to avoid attachments for fear of loss is to avoid life.
Lionel ShriverTags: life loss attachment
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