Sentimental Attachment Quotes

Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves.

There's a lot in my closet. I've been collecting things since I was five. I'm definitely a pack rat. I'm not a hoarder, but I'm definitely a pack rat. I will keep anything if I have a memory in it or a good moment.

When I'm writing good music and I'm caffeinated, I attribute all my success to the coffee, get really sentimental about the EDM scene and tweet a lot.

Everything rational and sensible abandons me when I try to throw out photographs. Time and time again, I hold one over a wastebasket, and then find it impossible to release my fingers and let the picture drop and disappear.

People think first love is sweet, and never sweeter than when that first bond snaps. You've heard a thousand pop and country songs that prove the point; some fool got his heart broke. Yet that first broken heart is always the most painful, the slowest to mend, and leaves the most visible scar. What's so sweet about that?

For most baseball fans, maybe oldest is always best. We love baseball because it seizes and retains the past, like the snowy village inside a glass paperweight.

I have so much of you in my heart.

One's home is like a delicious piece of pie you order in a restaurant on a country road one cozy evening - the best piece of pie you have ever eaten in your life - and can never find again. After you leave home, you may find yourself feeling homesick, even if you have a new home that has nicer wallpaper and a more efficient dishwasher than the home in which you grew up.

Cleveland is the place I grew up and lived much of my adult life, so it will always be a part of my soul.

[Love] is the type of disease that spares neither the intelligent nor the idiotic.

Nothing makes us love something more than the loss of it.

Happy is it to place a daughter; yet it pains a father's heart when he delivers to another's house a child, the object of his tender care.

Love, to the inferior man, remains almost wholly a physical matter. The heroine he most admires is the one who offers the grossest sexual provocation; the hero who makes his wife roll her eyes is a perambulating phallus.

Love is fine for singing about and love songs are good to listen to, sometimes even to dance to. But when we need food for our stomachs and clothes for our backs, love is nothing. Ah my lady, the last man any woman should think of marrying is the man she loves.

By an image we hold on to our lost treasures, but it is the wrenching loss that forms the image, composes, binds the bouquet.

I don't consider devotion to the past a form of snobbery. Just one of the more disastrous forms of unrequited love.

Feelings of longing seemed to burst from her heart; they ran in all directions, like streams of blood, seeking out paths to all the places in the wide landscape where she had lived, to all her sons roaming through the world, to all her dead lying under the earth.

Every day I'll wear your memory like a favorite shirt upon my back

I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.

You say love is just a four letter word.

I do hang on to things. I was so happy my father saved his army jacket. I grew up wearing that all through high school.

I've always had a problem with over-identification with inanimate objects.

I come from a mother who can cry at a G.E. commercial.

Love and the gentle heart are but the same thing.

We all have different thresholds for sentimentality. For me, it's a hard won happy ending.