#abandonment

I am not so different in my history of abandonment from anyone else after all. We have all been split away from the earth, each other, ourselves. ↗

— Susan Griffin

#after #am #anyone #away #been

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 devoted attention, not our divided attention. ↗

— Kenny Guinn

#abuse #also #attention #believe #best

We were kids without fathers, so we found our fathers on wax and on the streets and in history, and in a way, that was a gift. We got to pick and choose the ancestors who would inspire the world we were going to make for ourselves. ↗

— Jay-Z

#ancestry #art #fathers #inspiration #art

You left me." Not realizing until I've said my final good-bye and closed the door behind me, that he's not referring to the past. He's prophesying our future. ↗

— Alyson Noel

#prophecy #the-immortals #moon

To the totality of purposes of the perfect Law there belong the abandonment, depreciation, and restraint of desires in so far as possible. ↗

— Maimonides

#belong #depreciation #desires #far #law

You can't put abandonment and alienation under arrest. ↗

— Carrie P. Meek

#alienation #arrest #put #under #you

I've overcome neglect and deprivation, abandonment and abuse. ↗

— Tatum O'Neal

#abuse #deprivation #i #neglect #overcome

...I will exile my thoughts if they think of you again, and I will rip my lips out if they say your name once more. Now if you do exist, I will tell you my final word in life or in death, I tell you goodbye. ↗

— Knut Hamsun

#frustration #torment #death

Just — just to be clear,” he said. “You want to leave Tonks at her parents’ house and come away with us?” “She’ll be perfectly safe there, they’ll look after her,” said Lupin. He spoke with a finality bordering on indifference. “Harry, I’m sure James would have wanted me to stick with you.” “Well,” said Harry slowly, “I’m not. I’m pretty sure my father would have wanted to know why you aren’t sticking with your own kid, actually. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#james-potter #remus-lupin #death

Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air. ↗

— Gail Caldwell

#cancer #death #friendship #grief #loss