Abandonment Quote by Flora Rheta Schreiber

“It gave her a creeping sense of impending aloneness, like she was some orphaned animal raised by do-gooders, soon to be released into the…

— Laini Taylor

“She'd survived the outside. She'd survived the Aether and cannibals and wolves. She knew how to love now, and how to let go. Whatever…

— Veronica Rossi

“She'd learned how to disappear in place long ago. She was like one of those animals whose defense mechanism is to blend into the…

— Kristin Hannah

“She realized, when relationships failed to last, it was not because love was no longer present, but because people had stopped believing in themselves…

— Christina Westover

“It wasn't that she didn't believe in love; but she no longer believed in it for herself.”

— Daphne Kalotay

When she needed help most, she was abandoned--and only when she offered help to others was she beloved.

— Matthew Quick

“He would give up then and console himself with something she'd said. That you could not love what you fully understood. "Love, she maintained,…

— Iain M. Banks

“She imagined herself as some sort of vessel to be filled up with love. But it wasn't like that. The love was within her…

— Kim Edwards

“The sting of her abandonment had not lessened through the years, and I suspected it would never go away. Occasionally, I could see agony…

— T.J. Forrester

“She had lost some of who she was when she lost her beloved.”

— Alice Hoffman

“One felt that in her renunciation of life she had deliberately abandoned those places in which she might at least have been able to…

— Marcel Proust

“What love had been given her she wished to give to others. Most times they didn’t much want it but hounds, horses, cats, and…

— Rita Mae Brown