Of the human brain’s myriad design flaws, the hardest to overcome is attachment. It makes us sentimental. People abandon all reason for the sake of pride or fear or love.
It’s okay to take a sliver of someone and hold on to that. Especially if it’s all you have.
In war, there are no attachments. Only then can you fight without your hands tied.
You want to know how we rule this world without collapsing from the pain and loss? You find a piece of this world that belongs to you and you hold on to it. And then, when it’s finally gone, you find another.[to Nynaeve]
When you make a commitment to a child, you got to stick to it.
It is truly bewildering how quickly one person can become all that matters.[to Eloise]
Humans form attachments to other people, attachments to things, to places. Sometimes they are not even attached to what something is but a memory of what something used to be. Or a dream of what it might become.
Everybody I have cared for has either died or left me. Everybody, f***ing except for you! So don’t tell me that I’d be safer with somebody else because the truth is I would just be more scared.[to Joel]
