“Why does loving somebody mean you have to hurt them just as much? I mean, if that's the way it goes,what's the point of loving someone? Why the hell does it have to be like that?”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“Children whose parents are unpredictable— affectionate one minute and critical the next, for example— can become what we shrinks refer to as anxiously attached. They crave their parent’s love and approval while simultaneously being distrustful of it.”— Shawn Smith, amazon.com