Sue Grafton Quotes

I don't like to attach myself to material things.

My husband calls me 'throwy-outy' - he's horrified at how easily I dispense with things. People I won't let go of, but things, mementos from shows, I'm not particularly attached to.

He who is attached to things will suffer much.

It's not hard to own something. Or everything. You just have to know that it's yours, and then be willing to let it go.

The more you cling to things, The more you love them, The more the pain you suffer, When they're taken from you.

He's got to let go of you sometime.

I don't have very many little fetishes, but the one I do have is that I like a particular mug to drink out of. It's just a small china cup, and I get very upset if my husband moves it.

I'm bad at letting go of things.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

To be honest, I think I'd become a bit selfish with memories of my father. I wanted to hug them close to me.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.

The tighter you squeeze, the less you have.

If you ever want something badly, let it go. If it comes back to you, then it's yours forever. If it doesn't, then it was never yours to begin with.

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.

I knew I was going to lose my house in Ireland and all the other properties. It's all gone. But my house was the one material thing that was very important to me.

Never love something so much that you can't let go of it.

It's so hard getting rid of something that means something to you, as many of the pieces on our site do for me.

My mother kept every single thing that she ever got in her life.

I don't hoard things and I don't cling to memories.

Sometimes our thoughts and feelings are our most prized possessions... and then there are times to let go of your possessions and wander.

There is no use in loving things if you have to be torn from them, is there? And it's so hard to keep from loving things, isn't it?

Nothing you love is lost. Not really. Things, people—they always go away, sooner or later. You can’t hold them, any more than you can hold moonlight. But if they’ve touched you, if they’re inside you, then they’re still yours. The only things you ever really have are the ones you hold inside your heart.

Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn't that what people do?

Outgrowing things we love is never a pleasant process.

There ain't no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love what you got while you got it.