clings to
El niño se aferra a su madre.
The child clings to his mother.
Al envejecer, uno se aferra más a la vida.
As one gets older, one clings more tightly to life.
— Les invasions barbares (2003)
"El que se aferra no conserva".
He who clings doesn’t keep.
— El tigre y el dragón (2000)
El aristócrata se aferra a la gloria de su pasado.
The aristocrat clings to the glory of his past.
Se aferra.
He clings to it.
— La Escafandra Y La Mariposa (2007)