Abandoned Quote by S.L. Jennings

“Only a child expects life to be just; it's a man's part to stand by the consequences of his deeds.”

— Mary Stewart

“because children should have the chance to be loved by those who love them—always and no matter what.”

— Kim Harrison

“Letting go of expectation when it comes to one’s children is close to impossible. The entire premise of our love for them has to…

— Cheryl Strayed

“I would not want to be a child again, for a child exists in uncertainty and danger. Our flesh and blood, we cannot help…

— Keith Donohue

“Refusing to have a child is the highest degree of rebellion, after suicide; one of the best uses of the mind; and the best…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“You should beware of motherless children. They will eat you alive. You will never be loved by anyone the way that you will be…

— Heather O'Neill

“And the end of this paradox is that only when the child is thus free can he have the proper attachment to his parents;…

— Sydney J. Harris

“We must have the love that exists among children, for with them love rules without any special purpose.”

— Eberhard Arnold

“To have a child is to voluntarily bare one’s soul to the angst that arises when we love another human being more than we…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“All children should be loved, protected, nurtured--emotionally and intellectually--respected, and never, under any circumstances, underestimated. Especially, most essentially, by themselves.”

— Augusten Burroughs

“they will never allow that a child is under any obligation to his father for begetting him, or to his mother for bringing him…

— Jonathan Swift

“. . . for not an orphan in the wide world can be so deserted as the child who is an outcast from a living parent's love.”

— Charles Dickens