Abandonment Quote by Melissa Febos

Memory is the great deceiver. Perhaps there are some individuals whose memories act like tape recordings, daily records of their lives complete in every…

— Neil Gaiman

You know when you watch old movies, it's always the small parts you remember, the character actors who come in like a breath of…

— Amy Sedaris

You see, I take the parts that I remember and stitch them back together to make a creature that will do what I say…

— Richard Siken

“My mother relates to the world through a permeable membrane. She can imagine herself in a different life and has recast herself many times.…

— Melissa Febos

I think trauma gets a reductive treatment. We tend to think only violence or molestation or total abandonment qualify as "childhood trauma," but there…

— Melissa Febos

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

'The Waking Dark' is about what happens when something awakens a town's darkest impulses and unleashes them on the world.

— Robin Wasserman

When love awakens in your life, in the night of your heart, it is like the dawn breaking within you. Where before there was…

— John O'Donohue

I want to be part of the storytelling that educates people and awakens a sense of compassion in other people of the kind of…

— Kelly McCreary

“The Awakening You live this sheltered life glass walls around you in a fragile world of other people’s imagination and one day something comes…

— Neena H Brar

True poetry is a function of awakening. It awakens us, but it must retain the memory of previous dreams.

— Gaston Bachelard

“Walking awakens the total senses.”

— Bryant McGill