Quotes About Estrangement

There'd always been something wrong with Charlie Hall. Crooked, from the day she was born. Never met a bad decision she wasn't willing to double down on. Had fingers made for picking pockets, a tongue for lying, and a shriveled cherry pit for a heart. If her shadow had been one of those magic ones, she was pretty sure even that thing would have run away.

I hate everyone. I just don't hate them enough.

Quiero que mi nombre desaparezca de sus labios.

El descubrira mi engaño y nunca más deseará verme.

Was Savannah another sibling? Why wasn't she here today? Was she the family outcast? The prodigal daughter? Is that why her name seemed to land between them with such portentousness? And had anyone called her?

Winding Stair Senior Citizen Center things had been a little better, but the estrangement

She didn't need 'little chunks of home'. They were like slightly sinister postcards from old enemies.

What does your gut tell you?" "My gut and I aren't currently speaking to each other

I savour this total oblivion into which I have fallen. I am between two towns. One knows nothing of me, the other knows me no longer.

By the way, where is the bitch?" Giles had thought there was nothing his sister could ever say that would shock him. How wrong he was. "I've no idea," he eventually managed. "She hasn't been in contact with me for over a year. But if you believe the Daily Express, she's currently to be found in St. Tropez on the arm of an Italian

Mary had disrupted nearly every relationship in her life. Would she now come between her sisters, setting one against another, their long time amity forgotten?

Alienation produces eccentrics or revolutionary.

In a sense, I'm used to a kind of linguistic exile. My mother tongue, Bengali, is foreign in America. When you live in a country where your own language is considered foreign, you can feel a continuous sense of estrangement. You speak a secret, unknown language, lacking any correspondence to the environment. An absence that creates a distance within you.

He felt his presence on earth being denied, even as he stood there. He was forbidden access; the past refused to admit him. It only reminded him that this arbitrary place, where he'd landed and made his life, was not his

He looked at her, in her red plaid skirt and strawberry T-shirt, a woman not yet thirty, who loved neither her husband nor her children, who had already fallen out of love with life.

In a sense I'm used to a kind of linguistic exile. My mother tongue, Bengali, is foreign in America. When you live in a country where your own language is considered foreign, you can feel a continuous sense of estrangement. You speak a secret, unknown language, lacking any correspondence to the environment. An absence that creates a distance within you.

Upon him the contempt of three planets descended.

Nothing is so alien, so bleak and unfriendly, as the strip of gas stations—cut-rate gas stations—and motels on the rim of your own city. You fail to recognize it. And at the same time, you have to clasp it to your bosom. Not just for one night, but as long as you intend to live where you live.

But what I've done, he thought; that's become alien to me. In fact everything about me has become unnatural; I've become an unnatural self.

The gulf between their world and hers had manifested itself, however much they'd meditated on how to ball her, and remained.

He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach - that it makes no sense. And when that happens the happiness is never spontaneous again. It is artificial and, even then, bought at the price of an obstinate estrangement from oneself and one's history.

He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach—that it makes no sense. And when that happens the happiness is never spontaneous again. It is artificial and, even then, bought at the price of an obstinate estrangement from oneself and one's history.

i would rather eat dog shit full of razor blades than have anything to do with you.

I certainly feel sad about the alienation from my son.