112 quotes found
“I remember his eyes. They are just like mine. Every time I look in the mirror I see him. I try not to look at my self too much.”
“I think there were times when I was so afraid of losing you that I forgot I even had you at all.”
“Kavitas arms are still outstretched, but they hold nothing. After the metal gate clangs shut behind them, Kavita can still hear Ushas piercing wail echoing inside.”
“He tried not to cry as he wondered if he would ever have a home again.”
“The last we heard of him was a picture postcard from Mazatlan, on the Pacific coast of Mexico, containing a message of two words: "Hello - Goodbye!" and no address.”
“Last night, I realized that it is possible for love to die in an instant. It felt sickening to lie with you in the same bed and have your arms wrapped tightly around me. It no longer felt right.”
“Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.”
“Not belonging is a terrible feeling. It feels awkward and it hurts, as if you were wearing someone else's shoes.”
“When loneliness is a constant state of being, it harkens back to a childhood wherein neglect and abandonment were the landscape of life.”
“Everything you need comes into focus when you abandon the unneeded.”
“...in addition to feeling sick and tired and feverish and nauseated, I also felt forgotten. And there was no easy cure for that.”
“You dont know what it means to be betrayed! Should I explain it to you? It means to be treated like trash and your feelings get stepped onyou get hurt over and over again and in the end you are lef...”
“They should love you, just as you are. Parents should love their kids, right?" "You'd think so.”
“May it not be that he loves chaos and destruction (there can be no disputing that he does sometimes love it) because he is instinctively afraid of attaining his object and completing the edifice he...”
“We Are Lovable Even if the most important person in your world rejects you, you are still real, and you are still okay. Codependent No More Do you ever find yourself thinking: How could anyone poss...”
“But Claire had long ago realized, even after those constant dreams of her mother leaving faded away, that when you are abandoned as a child, you are never able to forget that people are capable of ...”
“I shall not be defined by what I have suffered but how I have endured them.”
“For years I had a fantasy of a happy-ever-after ending. The first night I spent at the university my fantasy ended, because I thought a happy-ever-after was pointless. Because with my father I didn...”
“I believe the best service to the child is the service closest to the child, and children who are victims of neglect, abuse, or abandonment must not also be victims of bureaucracy. They deserve our...”
“Hugging himself, Oscar leaned against the pantry wall. For two days all he had wanted was for Caleb to come back, and now he was back and Oscar had made a mess of things: he had angered half the cu...”
