Abandon Quotes

“Ruby, give me one reason why we can’t be together, and I’ll give you a hundred why we can. We can go anywhere you want. I’m not your parents. I’m not going to abandon you or send you away, not ever.”
― Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds

“Everybody is equally weak on the inside, just that some present their ruins as new castles and become kings –”
― Simona Panova, Nightmarish Sacrifice

“When people become prisoners of daily habits and happen to be hostages of choices, which they made in the past, but which they finally do not actually want, they experience the need to abandon their corporeal prison at a certain time in life. ( "Corporeal prison" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

“He let his mouth linger on mine, neither possessively nor sweetly... like his mouth just belonged there on mine. And he was right. It did. It always had.”
― Meg Cabot, Abandon

“The knowledge that he had left me with no intent ever to return had come over me in tiny droplets of realization spread over the years. And each droplet of comprehension brought its own small measure of hurt...He had wished me well in finding my own fate to follow, and I never doubted his sincerity. But it had taken me years to accept that his absence in my life was a deliberate finality, an act he had chosen, a thing completed even as some part of my soul still dangled, waiting for his return.”
― Robin Hobb, Fool's Assassin

“It’s strange how what drives us may abandon us midstream, how what tickles our ears with lies one moment may tell us truths that knock us on our emotional ass the next.
After all, it is an unbelievably real world, with Darwin scribbling his thoughts into books and telling us what monkeys we are. Each of us explores possibility, hungry for sustaining adoration, yet we know enough to render ourselves helpless.
We strive and strain, bellow and believe, we learn, and everything we learn tells us the same thing: life is one great meaningful experience in a meaningless world. Brilliance has many parts, yet each part is incomplete.
We live, heal and attempt to piece together a picture worth the price of our very lives.
The picture I saw presented demonic executioners, who crippled those daring to look and consumed souls without defense. They’re everywhere. Some are people we know. Others are the great fears and addictions of our lives.”
― Christopher Hawke

“He judged the instant and let go; he flung himself loose into the stars.”
― Annie Dillard

“I might look like a honey-eyed schoolgirl on the outside, in my skirt with its regulation four-inches-above-the-knee hem. But I'll rip those tassels off your shoes, old man. Just try Googling me.”
― Meg Cabot

“I thought you'd like it," he said, seeming hurt. "You look very pretty.”
― Meg Cabot, Abandon

“When I was younger, I would cling to life because life was at the top of the turning wheel. But like the song of my gypsy-girl, the great wheel turns over and lands on a minor key. It is then that you come of age and life means nothing to you. To live, to die, to overdose, to fall in a coma in the street... it is all the same. It is only in the peach innocence of youth that life is at its crest on top of the wheel. And there being only life, the young cling to it, they fear death... And they should! ...For they are in life.”
― Roman Payne, The Wanderess

“The hours tick by as I lie in bed.
Memories keep surfacing, tormenting me into unbelievable sadness. I can't bring myself to move. I can't fight the memories that keep filling my thoughts. I stay curled in the fetal position as each memory plays out. I can't stop them from coming. I can't make them go away. Nothing can distract me. I can't block the memories, so they continue to come.”
― Ashley Earley, Alone in Paris

“Surrendering is intentionally laying down the power I possess. And have I considered that the power I lay down is often more powerful than that which I’m laying it down in front of? Therefore, I would be wise to recognize that surrender is less the absence of power and more the presence of fear.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“There was no hope of survival, anymore. I felt abandoned and betrayed. I never imagined such a terrible death and I was so conscious that it was happening now.”
― Sylvie Danielle Matias, The Shadows of Auldham

“In mathematics, it's unwise to abandon an interesting idea just because it's wrong.”
― Ian Stewart, Infinity: A Very Short Introduction

“Being there, but not being there.”
― Anthony Liccione

“But this was fancy; she was succumbing to fancy in a way she hadn't done before.”
― Gregory Maguire, A Lion Among Men

“It is foolishness to think that you can leave a place your heart never left.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough, The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

“If I abandon every memory that possesses some element pain in order to be free of pain, will I experience the far greater pain of living a life that I can’t remember living?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“you abandon yourself
in a cavity of pain
a butterfly in
a hurricane: vital,
fragile and obscene”
― Hanna Abi Akl, Correspondence

“People will always have something to say about you because they’re perpetually preoccupied with avoiding what they would say about themselves.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“17, where confidence and innocence shake hands.
Where Independence fluctuates,
Scales of supply and demand.
Where teenage temper tantrums
Disguise more depth then we can see.
Where parental paranoia screams: "Please don't abandon me" .”
― Kim Brandon, Seventeen

“Family are the only ones who will not abandon us. Even if they fail, they don’t stop trying, they will even attempt a kiss-of-life to our corpse if only it will bring us back to life.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1

“More so than any child I have met, Bear straddled the line of eating nothing and eating everything. He piled a plate with whatever was available, ate three tactical bites to discourage stealing, and ran off to do anything else. When questioned, he would swear he was coming back to finish off the warm macaroni salad and cold hamburger, but he never did. The world was too full of gleeful abandon to pay mind to calories. When his food, now spoiled, ended up in the garbage, he would growl at the rank unfairness of his starvation.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Holidays with Bigfoot

“More often than not, it’s not that we don’t believe in God. Rather, it’s that we don’t want to.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I had two prescriptions for CPAP: 7 cmH2O and 13 cmH2O. Both made me feel lousy and the higher pressure caused Aerophagia. I eventually had to abandon the treatment as it was making me so sick.”
― Steven Magee

“The only reason that we’ve settled is that there’s something greater that we’ve let slip away.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“You say, “Fine. I’m leaving,” and you begin to walk away. I’m going to guess that well over half the time they yell, “No, wait!” and run to catch up. No one likes to be abandoned.”
― Chris Voss, Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It

“Letting children “live their lives” isn’t about releasing them into the wild or abandoning them (though French school trips do feel a bit like that to me). It’s about acknowledging that children aren’t repositories for their parents’ ambitions or projects for their parents to perfect. They are separate and capable, with their own tastes, pleasures, and experiences of the world. They even have their own secrets.”
― Pamela Druckerman, Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting

“You ought to be ashamed of yourself!” he accuses Coach Slattery. “You send these kids out there to be tackled and elbowed and hit with hockey sticks. And when they get injured, you abandon them?”
― Gordon Korman, The Unteachables

“This pen shall think too much of the unconditional love that went beyond human lengths of understanding to make us feel our inseparable union with Almighty Love.”
― Rachael Cannon, The Heart of the Lily: Volume One