A bloody bastard lies abandoned still tied to the cord.

“Right, except I'm not going to lie to my mom, because what kind of bastard lies to his own mother?”

— John Green

“That bloody bastard! That thrice accursed son of a bitch!”

— Cornelia Funke

“Well, I'm your man. I'm the bloody bastard you wanted when you had me spawned. I'm your tool, and what difference does it make…

— Orson Scott Card

I've never been keen on open adoption. It doesn't seem to solve the main problem with adoption, which is that somebody feels she was…

— Joan Didion

Through it all, this wild life on and off the road , through Jordanian deserts , Spanish islands, German prisons, Caribbean tax scams, halls…

— Eric Burdon

“The desperate loneliness is nothing compared to the torture of falling in love and then being abandoned.”

— A.J. Nuest

Barack Obama became president, and he abandoned Iraq. He left, and when he left Al Qaida was done for. ISIS was created because of…

— Jeb Bush

The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did notthe value of security won,…

— Ida Tarbell

In the eyes of those lovers of perfection, a work is never finished a word that for them has no sense but abandoned; and…

— Paul Valery

We should be recklessly abandoned to Jesus, and just turn it over to Him. Through the support I think the sacrifices will be made…

— Stacie Orrico

Early on in my life, I had a broken soul. I was abused by my father, abandoned by my mother and ended up in…

— Joyce Meyer

In Russia there is an emigration of intelligence: émigrés cross the frontier in order to read and to write good books. But in doing…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

When good media takes a bounded form, and comes once in a period of time, it begs to be consumed as a whole -…

— John Battelle

It’s hard to feel attracted to someone who has abandoned her sense of autonomy.

— Esther Perel

“I'm surprised when I walk right into yet another abandoned hunters' camp. Tattered plastic sheeting still hangs askew here and there. Blackened aerosol cans…

— Rick Bass