Dilemma Quote by Trenton Lee Stewart

“I'm an orphan now, thought Charlotte. No matter how old you are, when your parents are gone, you are alone - an orphan.”

— Libby Schmais

“The real orphans are words, always stumbling about to capture what must be said. And here they go again.”

— Nathan Leslie

“ Constance: Tell me, what happened to William's little maid? I never saw her again after that dinner. Mary Maceachran: Elsie? -- She's gone.…

— Julian Fellowes

“she's so caught up she's unaware she's no longer the prisoner here, I am”

— Poppet

“We have nothing left. Orphans. Castaways." She turns to me. "Childless. That is what we are. The unwanted or the un-killed. We are together…

— Bill Blais

“Orphans have many parents.”

— Adriana Trigiani

“Prisoner of Her Own Captivity”

— Brandalynn Davis

“At times such as these, evenings in the forest, loneliness seized her like a black dog. She kept telling herself it was pure weakness,…

— Jean Zimmerman

“...even a poisoned, desolate childhood can be missed.”

— Julianna Baggott

“It is evening.  I have dismissed, with the fee of an orange, the little orphan who serves me as a handmaid. ”

— Charlotte Brontë

“She was hollow and lost and abandoned up.”

— Alice Sebold

“Are you really an orphan? Yes, I am, said Portia a shade shortly. Are you? No, not at present, but I suppose it's a…

— Elizabeth Bowen