Clinginess Quotes

There were so many people, so much to navigate, and as the distance fluctuated between us his hand kept slipping, down my arm to my wrist. And maybe he was going to let go as people pressed in on all sides, but all I could think was how when nothing made sense and hadn't for ages, you just have to grab onto anything you feel sure of. So as I felt his fingers loosening around my wrist, I just wrapped my own around them, right, and held on

Don't be a keeper.

My mother wanted to shrink from my clinging, but did not.

Were you already here?" he asked. "Yeah." "Didn't you just bring her home from work two hours ago?" "Yeah." Tripp chuckled and shook his head. "Did you even leave?" "No.

You. Are. Not. Leaving. Me.

Here's what I think: the five most unattractive traits in people are cheapness, clinginess, neediness, unwillingness to change and jealousy. Jealousy is the worst, and by far the hardest to conceal.

You don't have to love me. Just don't leave me," he said against my leg

Say a word, say a thousand to me on the telephone and I shall choose the wrong one to cling to as though you had said it after long deliberation when only I provoked it from you, I will cling to it from among a thousand, to be provoked and hurl it back with something I mean no more than you meant that, something for you to cling to and retreat clinging to.

I was always holding onto people, and they were always leaving.

I look down at our linked fingers as I loosen my grasp, but he regains his grip on me. “No, don’t let go of me,” he says.

I'm trying my hardest to get you so wrapped up in me you never leave.

I don't like to leave anything,' the man said. 'I don't like to leave things behind.

Blaming mother is just a negative way of clinging to her still.

It's pitch, sex is. Once you touch it, it clings to you.

I'm like a fungus; you can't get rid of me.

The resistance to praying is like the resistance of tightly clenched fists. This image shows a tension, a desire to cling tightly to yourself, a greediness which betrays fear.

Give me one good reason why I should never make a change, baby if you hold me then all of this will go away.

I feel sorry for anyone that I am obsessed with. I am worse than gum in your hair, very, very close to the roots.

Why do I always feel like you're trying to staple my umbilical cord to the corner of your desk?

He never lets go of Annie's hand. Not when they walk, not when they eat. I doubt he ever plans to.

How easy I was. Like a limpet I attached myself to anything, anyone who showed me the least attention.

You think that holding someone hard will bring them closer. You think that you can hold them so hard that you'll still feel them, embossed on you, when you pull away. Every time Eleanor pulled away from Park, she felt the gasping loss of him.

I get attached to things: I wear the same jeans for a year.

A man always mistakes a woman's clinging devotion for weakness, until he discovers that it requires the strength of Samson, the patience of Job, and the finesse of Solomon to untwine it.

Love has earth to which she clings.