Quotes About Abandonment

Entering my childhood home is a little disorienting, like reading the end of a novel that I'd started, then abandoned, long ago.

She will not plant the seed in their mind, that a parent is capable of abandoning her children, of saying to them You are not enough. For Pari, the children and Eric have always been enough. They always will be.

Of course, it wouldn't have happened if Mammy had shown up like she was supposed to either. Sometimes Laila wondered why Mammy had even bothered having her. People, she believed now, shouldn't be allowed to have new children if they'd already given away all their love to their old ones. It wasn't fair.

It was the way Nana uttered the word - not so much saying it as spitting it at her - that made Mariam feel the full sting of it.

Revenirea in casa copilariei ma face sa simt dezorientat, ca si cum as citi finalul unui roman pe care l-am inceput si apoi l-am abandonat, cu multi ani in urma.

Entering my childhood home is a little disorienting, like reading the end of a novel that I'd started, then abandoned, long ago.

Sometimes loneliness is an emergency situation

Life was going on, and no one but a handful of people cared if I lived or died.

Volatile people, you can't trust them, that's the thing; and they know it. So that even if they feel remorse, it does no good, and they know that too. So they get lonely. And they feel the remorse less and less, maybe. They give up.

So much for Phyllis's bridge," Nadia said. "So much for Phyllis," said Sax.

Love is a finding-out: Our walk to the bedroom (Hand in hand, eye to eye) Up a stair of marble Or decently scrubbed boards, As much as what we do In our abandonment, Teaches us who we are And what we are, and what Life itself is.

What are you trying to prove? Lucia demanded. Between strikes, he bellowed, That you should no' have left me! You were going to do it to me--don't bother denying it! When he didn't, she said, Then why are you different? Another volley of arrows. What gives you the right to risk yourself? He snapped, Because you could move on if something happened to me.

Ah, but she was a pastel wearer. She was forever dead to Sabine.

I will have spent my entire life in service to the kingdom, only to abandon it in a time of need, for a female who doesn't even want me!

No one intended to leave Martha alone that afternoon, but it happened that everyone was called away, for one reason or another.

I wonder why why why why why why, she ran away?

When you feel abandoned by God yet continue to trust him in spite of your feelings, you worship him in the deepest way.

She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.

With this first letter I sent fourteen watercolors, including Nostalgia of the Orient, Glorious Sunset at Sea, Distressed Stars on Earth, Deep Sorrow, Kingdom of Ferns, Abandoned Heart, and Rye and Rainbow.

As the years go by, my life keeps filling up with names like abandoned cemeteries or like an empty history class or a telephone book in a foreign city. And death is when someone behind you keeps calling and calling and you no longer turn around to see who.

My father built over me a worry big as a shipyard and I left it once, before I was finished, and he remained there with his big, empty worry.

Bad things happen—wars, plagues, parents abandoning their children, the heartless preying on those with hearts—and no one, not a human or a god, will intervene.

Nobody goes there anymore, it's to crowded

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