Divorce in a young-adult novel means what being orphaned meant in a fairy tale: vulnerability, danger, unwanted independence. — Caitlin Flanagan Copy Share Image
As an adult, it's a huge shock to be orphaned; as a child it's just hideous, ghastly. — Kristin Scott Thomas Copy Share Image
“A life was a life. She'd been orphaned at an age to internalize death as poor material for a joke. And likewise,… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“They weren't my family and it wasn't my holiday, but I was orphaned and an atheist and I would take what I… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
With spirit we are all children of the cosmos; Without it we are orphaned and adrift. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
The truth is you can be orphaned again and again and again. The truth is, you will be. And the secret is,… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
It's not so much that I want to direct but that I have to. When I write something it terrifies me that… — Peter Mullan Copy Share Image
A child, when orphaned, can become anything. If I had not joined the Army, who knows, I may have become a dacoit.… — Milkha Singh Copy Share Image
“Dead parents are gruesome, yes, but anyone who’s anyone in children’s literature has either been orphaned or abandoned; well-adjusted kids from stable… — Lynn messina Copy Share Image
...she knew in her heart that nature has a preference for a particular order: parents die, then children die. But it was… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
Asks an orphaned childhood, I am a sign of someone's sin, or I'm result of mistake of youth their mother's . Whatever.… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
My father was the orphaned son of immigrants to the United States from Ireland. My father never knew his parents. His mother… — George J. Mitchell Copy Share Image
“She was a stray after all. A stray not only in its plantation meaning-orphaned, with no one to look after her-but in… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“ORPHAN TRAIN is a specifically American story of mobility and rootlessness, highlighting a little-known but historically significant moment in our country’s past.… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
Did you know a child is orphaned by AIDS every 15 seconds. Millions of children are going it alone. Missing their childhood.… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
“It's like being dropped into a black hole. A vacuum of existence. When I turn around, I will be instantly orphaned because… — Wendy Wunder Copy Share Image
