Anxiously Attached Quotes

#1. When we are anxiously attached, our inability to trust the intentions and behaviors of others will often lead us to escalate situations and then reject attempts to reassure us. It is a painful and dramatic spiral.

Mary Crocker Cook

#2. For a devotee or lover, the being, worshipped or loved, will always be the only one for her or him.

Lionel Blue

#3. Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.

G. Willow Wilson

#4. Parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus.
(Mountains are in labour, a ridiculous mouse will be born)

Horace

#5. How long does it take to write a good book? All of the years that you've lived.

Edward Abbey

#6. The futility of the attempt was obvious; when you put in that much effort to forget someone, the effort itself becomes a memory.

Steve Toltz

#7. Like Daniel she enteres the lions' den, but lacking Daniel's pure and unblemished soul, Ada is spiced with the flavors of vice that make for a tasty meal. Pure and unblemished souls must taste very bland, with an aftertaste of bitterness.

Barbara Kingsolver

#8. You gotta understand: I'm a man with needs that needs fulfilling.
And if you ain't with it, somebody else is willing.

Lord Jamar