“Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.”

“Perhaps family itself, like beauty, is temporary, and no discredit need attach to impermanence.”

“We have woven a web, you and I, attached to this world but a separate world of our own invention.”

“The spider spinning his web for the unwary fly. The blood is the life, Mr. Renfield.”

“Attachment is the still water in which the mosquitoes of stress grow.”

“To the most trivial actions, attach the devotion and mindfulness of a hundred monks. To matters of life and death, attach a sense of humor.”

“Stop all your attachments to false values. In an ever changing world, there is nothing worthwhile for us to desire or weep for. Joys and sorrows are bound come in human life; they are just like the two sides of the same coin.”

“Attachment to the body causes fear of death. It is the strongest attachment. Even a newborn infant has this attachment. To overcome the fear of death it is necessary to accept that we all have to die.”

“for her, life was as cold as an attic with a window looking to the north, and ennui, like a spider, was silently spinning its shadowy web in every cranny of her heart.”

“Attachment is the most powerful force in the universe. We are meant to learn in the context of attachment about what we are attached to, and the things that serve our attachment needs.”