Quotes About Abandonment

There were times when taking vengeance for the dead seemed too high a price for abandoning the living.

Nor is there any special wisdom in injuring oneself over and over. What is your loyalty to that pain? To abandon it will not lessen you

Their dad had just pulled up stakes, left the country—and us. He said that he no longer wanted a life with so much responsibility, so the responsibility was all mine.

When they abandoned gratitude, the gifts abandoned them.

had worked to get to the driver, who, pinned in her seat, was hanging upside down, seat belt still in place, her body as broken and twisted as the car. Alvarez had looked into the body bag and felt her insides go cold. Questions that had haunted her about the victim for the past few days now pounded through her brain: Why had she left in the middle of the night?

You can love your mother, and she still might leave you. You can love or hate the sea, but it will always be there. Forever. The sea has been the center of her life. It has nurtured her and stolen from her, but it has never left.

plants and leave the bulbs in the ground, ignore ears of corn, or carelessly drop cabbage

I know I'm the most precious person in my family, but I wasn't precious enough for my birth family to keep me as their one child.

She heeded Bluebeard's warning, thought Pandora was a fool. There are some memories better abandoned. Common wisdom demanded examination of the past, probing of childhood pain and trauma. Then—acceptance, release, and ultimately forgiveness.

If he had stayed, he would have starved in other ways.

If she finished her work—hah, now there was a fantasy, this work would never be finished, only abandoned, or, all right, passed on—she might squeeze out another day off by next weekend.

Bree looked up at Mikkel. Please, she said. Just go away. Pretend you neve found us. No. He spit out the word. Sail on home. Leave us behind. No, Mikkel said again.

He is not coming back. And it hurt.It hurt until she was a mass of pain,worse than it had been when she thought he was dead. More all consuming. Ravaging her insides.

just walked away.

Perhaps she drives men away. Perhaps, without even being able to help herself, she just puts men into her ill-tempered car and drives them off: to quarries, dumps, small anonymous bodies of water.

I said nothing. If she wasn't careful, everyone would rush out of her life, life out of a burning building.

The things most people need to learn in therapy are related to attachment, abandonment, love, and fear. We are trying to access basic emotional processes that are organized in primitive and early-developing parts of the brain. The language of these emotions is also very basic; it is the language of childhood. The more complex the language and ideas you bring into therapy, the more likely you are to stimulate your clients' intellectualizing defenses.

a few sagging houses whose stones had lost their mortar and were held together only by gravity and habit

few sagging houses whose stones had lost their mortar and were held together only by gravity and habit

The old towns, the ghost towns, no longer belong to men. The desert and the mountains have taken them back, gathered them into their arms and made them one with the trees and brush and rocks.

A dead man they could leave, but a wounded man they must care for.

I was fed a little. I was given water. And I was visited by no one.

There were dead rats living in the basement.

I'll let my castle go