Quotes About Abandonment

My life is like a lone, forgotten Q-Tip in the second-to-last drawer.

So it stood to reason that if I could disappoint my own father—if I couldn't get my own father to love me enough to stick around or, God forbid, visit more often than one day a year—how was I ever going to get a man who didn't have to love me like daddies were supposed to? (Hey

Smoles lived alone in this huge house for several reasons, the main one being that no one else wanted to live there with him. He had quite a time keeping staff and his dogs kept running away and he'd tried goldfish but they all ran away too—he could never figure out how, but he'd come home and find the bowls empty and the fish just plain gone.

It was one thing to go into battle with friends, and another to perish alone and despised.

it felt as if they had all died while he had slept...or perhaps (He) died, and they had forgotten him.

He's turned against me too, Theon realized. Of late it seemed to him as if the very stones of Winterfell had turned against him. If I die, I die friendless and abandoned. What choice did that leave him, but to live?

Why has no one come to pry me out of here? - Cersei

Dear World, I am leaving you because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck.

Hope never abandons you; you abandon it.

I looked like a person who wanted to abandon his own abandonment around some corner. Like someone looking for a distant and unknown place to release the cats of his sorrow, so that they would never find the way home. Do you know how hard it is to get rid of cats?

The history of the family can be described through the abandonment of several children. The history of the world, too.

Eventually, having shoved enough down them to keep them more or less alive, I left them in their strawberry basket on the veranda

Gabito would say later that he had no memory of his mother. She had left him before he could retain any memories at all.

Alone, alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide, wide sea.

Every moderate drinker could abandon the intoxicating cup if he would; every inebriate would if he could.

Even when it stands vacant the past is never empty.

If you are a woman, you may need to forgive those whom you have loved or those who refused to love you; those who have hurt you, shamed you, and abandoned you; or those who left you scarred or wounded.

THE REASON YOU KEEP ATTRACTING THE ONES WHO LEAVE IS BECAUSE YOU EXPECT THEM TO DO SO.

I had loved one man most of life only to have him leave me not once or twice but four times for someone else.

Don't leave me again. God. God. Don't leave me again. I didn't Part of you did. He moved her back, and his eyes swarmed with emotion. Part of you left me, and I couldn't stand it.

Neither of them knew what it was to be family, to have family, to make a family. They knew cruelty, abuse, abandonment. She wondered if that was why they had come together. They both understood what it was to have nothing, to know fear and hunger and despair- and both had remade themselves.

Mi madre se pasó la vida trabajando. Fregaba los suelos de otros, cocinaba para ellos, lavaba sus platos. Lavaba su ropa sucia. Fregaba sus baños después de que los usaran. Se arrodillaba y limpiaba el retrete. Pero cuando estaba vieja y enferma, la olvidaron. La apartaron de su vista. Cuando murió, la arrojaron al fuego.

I feel as though I am shelved. That I have been given the words to the story of my life, but that I have remained largely unread...

Oh. Good. The idea that you might only cripple the guy makes me feel a fuck of a lot better about leaving you here.