You can lie but you can’t re-write history. Even if you could, what would you say to those who lived it and helped you thru, some of the darkest periods of your life?

They say blood is thicker than water. It’s also more treacherous, prone to betrayal, full of shit and quite honestly, I wouldn’t put much weight into it at all.

it seemed that the pain of their physical illness at times was less than the misery of their poverty ridden existence, the unending wait in the queues and the feeling of hopelessness and abandonment by...

People mean well; they just aren’t here enough to get what we are dealing with or what home means to my mother. Everyone thinks they know what should be done, and their suggestions make me...

Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Probably everything in my life comes back to a feeling of abandonment, and this city never abandons you.

Leaving would imply suitcases and empty drawers, and late birthday cards with ten-dollar bills stuffed inside.

For far too long we have been seduced into walking a path that did not lead us to ourselves. For far too long we have said yes when we wanted to say no. And for...

I think there were times when I was so afraid of losing you that I forgot I even had you at all.

Sentirse completamente solo en el mundo, abandonado de repente por todos, abatido por el peso de una vergüenza desconocida o de alguna condena silenciosa es algo más pavoroso y misterioso que la muerte.

Kavita’s arms are still outstretched, but they hold nothing. After the metal gate clangs shut behind them, Kavita can still hear Usha’s piercing wail echoing inside.

A generous heart is always open, always ready to receive our going and coming. In the midst of such love we need never fear abandonment. This is the most precious gift true love offers –...

I see the insipid flesh blossoming and palpitating with abandon.

When loneliness is a constant state of being, it harkens back to a childhood wherein neglect and abandonment were the landscape of life.

What will life be like without her? I am dreadfully sad she is leaving. What if she just disappears; gets tired of all this trouble at home? What if she leaves me too? How heavy...

Boundary construction is most evident in three-year-olds. Boundary construction is most evident in three-year-olds. By this time, they should have mastered the following tasks:1. The ability to be emotionally attached to others, yet without giving...

Either way, one should love their children, shouldn’t they? After all, children are only duplicates of your own genes. What did these children ever ask for? They wanted love, family, and support. But WE kicked...

Those who choose to walk on love’s path are well served if they have a guide. That guide can enable us to overcome fear if we trust that they will not lead us astray or...

There is not a moment in which God does not present Himself under the cover of some pain to be endured, of some consolation to be enjoyed, or of some duty to be performed. All...

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...

The sun loved me again when it saw that the stars would not abandon me.

A water fountain is a drinkable sculpture. I just drank one shaped like my father, and I can’t wait to shoot him out of my penis, so I can abandon him like he did to...

Sometimes you can’t figure out the truth because you’re asking people that are emotionally or socially invested in you to be brutally honest. Often family or friends will tell you what you want to hear,...

I’ve spoken of the patient Peter who was obsessively forced to make conquests with women, to seduce and then to abandon them, until he was at last able to experience how he himself had repeatedly...

Remember when you discovered your father owned a book called “How To Disappear and Never Be Found?” You’re sure it was just research for new and creative ways of thinking, for concepts that might apply...

The sun does not abandon the moon to darkness.

every loss, every mistake, was seared into her soul, creating a different kind of tattoo, one made from rage and abandonment, heart break and tears

May it not be that he loves chaos and destruction (there can be no disputing that he does sometimes love it) because he is instinctively afraid of attaining his object and completing the edifice he...

Wherever you will go, I will let you down, But this lullaby goes on.

The last time she had seen him in the flesh, all the vital force of his life stripped away, his sharpened face had confronted her with such a fearful fixed finality of sightless indifference that...

Tell a child, that he will soon be homeless; he will slowly detach from the world. Tell that same child that he is now homeless, he will abandon all foundations. Tell the child he has...

And what if—what are you if the people who are supposed to love you can leave you like you’re nothing?

Some people tend to throw your love to the dogs when you become totally submissive to them, but when you want to get out of the heat, they pull you back into the kitchen.

Less than twenty-four hours ago, I had a family and a home and a dreamworld I thought was as close to heaven as you could get without dying.I have none of that now.My brother is...

Not belonging is a terrible feeling. It feels awkward and it hurts, as if you were wearing someone else’s shoes.

I lay in bed and watched moments break into phenomenal particles of panic and could actually see the divine crack of God’s ass as he completely turned his back on me.

Turning your back on nothing and walking away is not disloyal, it’s self respect.

And just what would I gain if I go back to that place? I’ll stop at a tree when I like it and I’ll fly when I like it.How I live and where I live...

Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air.

illegitimate” sources of satisfaction: experiencing a loss of self-respect for indulging in activities contrary to personal moral standards of conduct; risking the displeasure and misunderstanding of others important to her; and opening oneself to the...

Do not conform to seek the seekers, but leave the leavers. Wisdom comes from facing what you do not yet understand.

So the little prince tamed the fox. And when the time for him to leave was approaching:”Oh!”, said the fox. “I am going to cry.””It’s your own fault,” said the little prince. “I never wished...

We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions, and there’s no altering that.

She’d abandoned the animal she loved as she herself had been abandoned repeatedly in the past by people who had claimed to love her.

…in January, everything seems desolate. The Moon ascends to cold heights – and I, a ragged sky filled with dark kisses…lie abandoned by you…

Perhaps family itself, like beauty, is temporary, and no discredit need attach to impermanence.

Howard: Sometimes a betrayal can be so subtle that it clouds the whole thing.Nita: It would have to be a real betrayal. Not like canceling an appointment. It would be like you’d end the relationship...

There are possibilities that exist beyond our present “knowing,” and to see those possibilities, we must abandon that which makes us feel safe.

I flopped on the overstuffed kitchen couch and watched him go. I wondered what would happen to all his films and photographs in the upstairs closet – the documentaries on homelessness and drug addiction, the...

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