Quotes About Estrangement

So you've made a friend. How sad for them.

My fragile connection with the world of polite society has, without a doubt, been severed.

The entire time I was in Portland, which was the five years, I had absolutely no contact with any of my family.

Slash and I hadn't talked in 19 years, and when we did talk, I was like, 'You wrote a lot of stuff that didn't even happen. It's not real.'

How long has it been since I've seen sunlight? Down in the asshole of creation, it was a dim, perpetual crimson-and-magenta twilight.

You and I aren't friends either.

Will you vouch for him if he stays?" "My uncle?" Adrian asked. "Hell no. I haven't seen him in years. I don't know antyhing about him.

It was as though, in one moment, he had become a stranger. And I a stranger to myself.

In the house Dad said, Go see about her, will you? She won't talk to me now. Lorraine went out to the porch. Can I sit with you, Mom? No, I don't want any company. I don't want to speak to you or anybody else right now.

I'm estranged from my father and that relationship, as a young man, is incredibly important. It's probably responsible for the man I've become.

If only it were possible to grasp the moment when two people first become strangers to each other.

The estrangement of body and spirit in modern society is an almost universal phenomenon, and there is nobody—the reader may feel—who would fail to deplore it; so that to prate emotionally about the body "thinking" or the "loquacity" of the flesh is going too far, and by using such phrases I am merely covering up my own confusion.

Guild doesn't like me." "That's true." "He doesn't like you, ether." "That is mystifying.

Once, we were close and close-knit, but now we are unmoored islands, each alone, each a separate planet, drifting farther and farther away, content to turn ever inward . . . This is no idle solipsism; it has taken on the fragile brightness of truth. Cities turned from cities, self-devouring. Governments fragmenting into fragments of fragments. Entertainment become a solitary diversion. Solo adventures.

There was nothing left. Nothing of him, and nothing of me.

that little bitch hadn't run, I would have put a bullet in her myself. You think I want a dime of your blood money, girl? You think you're family? You hang up that phone. You forget my name. And if you're lucky, I'll make sure this family—this whole town—forgets yours.

was never enough for him. Toby was his favorite, then Skye. I was last, no matter what I did. That was never going to change. He left his fortune to a total stranger rather than leaving it to me. What else could I possibly need to know?

Rebecca's been forbidden from seeing any of us." Xander grimaced. "Her mom said that the Hawthorne family takes and takes. She said that we don't play by any rules and don't care who we hurt. She blames our family for Toby's death." "And Emily's," Grayson added roughly.

Ricky Grambs was a deadbeat. He hadn't even cared enough to pick up the phone when my mother died. If it had been left up to him, I would have gone into foster care. Staring at Ricky's signature, I willed Tobias Hawthorne's reasoning in highlighting it to become clear.

The man out on the street was something without a human nature or a personality of its own. He was on a stage. The street was another world.

they seemed to be greater strangers than before

When they got back into the carriage they felt greater strangers than before.

Hereafter she is only my sister in name; not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me.

Se tutto il resto perisse e lui restasse, io continuerei a essere; e, se tutto il resto persistesse e lui venisse annientato, l'universo mi diverrebbe estraneo; non mi sembrerebbe di esserne parte.