#unwanted

Behind closed doors, we're all the fat uncool kid. ↗

— Su-Mari Diedericks

#truth-of-life #unpopular #unwanted #life

If it was true that moss did not have roots, and maternal love could grow spontaneously, as if from nothing, perhaps I had been wrong to believe myself unfit to raise my daughter. Perhaps the unattached, the unwanted, the unloved, could grow to give love as lushly as anyone else. ↗

— Vanessa Diffenbaugh

#the-unloved #the-unwanted #love

If only Sam could have stayed just like the Dog, she thought. A comforting friend without the complication of romantic interest.There had to be something she could do to completely discourage him, short of throwing up, or making herself totally unattractive. "I'm thirty-five," she said at last. ↗

— Garth Nix

#unwanted-attention #romantic

I dislike the word 'victim.' I dislike being told that I 'lost' my husband - as if I had idly abandoned you by the side of the railway track like an unwanted pair of old shoes. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#being #dislike #had #husband #i

There are unwanted emotions and pain that goes along with any birth. ↗

— John Travolta

#any #birth #emotions #goes #pain

I could do terrible things to people who dump unwanted animals by the roadside. ↗

— James Herriot

#dump #i #people #roadside #terrible

There are so many issues in society - we talk about the violence, the drugs, the unwanted pregnancies - but at the end of the day, it comes down to what we taught our children to be. ↗

— Allan Houston

#children #comes #day #down #end

We must not inflict life on children who will be resented; we must not inflict unwanted children on society. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#inflict #life #must #resented #society

I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw that my bath toys were a toaster and a radio. ↗

— Joan Rivers

#baby #bath #i #knew #radio

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#greatest #homeless #homes #hungry #kind