Abandonment Issue Quotes Novels & Stories

Before he abandoned me to glorify her instead. I think of his voice. Of his "you're dramatizing," "you're too sensitive," "you're exaggerating, Gracias." I think of the first time he left me alone one evening, without warning, without apology. And me, who waited for him. Lukewarm soup in my hands. A movie already started. A life slowly fraying, that I refused to watch die. I still love him. Fuck, I love him. I love him the way one loves what destroyed us, because it's all we've ever known.

she said. I didn’t respond. She hesitated, as if wanting to say something else. Then she walked toward the door of the study. At the threshold, she paused. “For what it’s worth,” she said without turning around, “I would never abandon my child.” The words hit harder than anything else she’d said all night. The door clicked softly shut behind her. I stood alone in the dim study, staring at nothing. Never abandon my child. My mind replayed the timeline again.

“You’re sharp. I can see it. You have a vision. I don’t want the rehearsed answers. I want your thoughts.” Abigail hesitated. A part of her wanted to stay silent, to keep everything formal. But another part of her, the one that had always wanted to prove she wasn’t just a shadow in Luke’s life, answered before she could stop herself. “I think…” She glanced back at the steel frame rising against the sky. “I think it’s ambitious. But ambition doesn’t always mean success. If you don’t keep people in mind, the workers, the people who’ll use the building then it’s just glass and stone. Beautiful, but empty.”

“That I’ll abandon you like your parents. Like your father.” “Yes,” she whispers. My protectiveness of this girl roars in my middle, winding my muscles up like yarn around a fist. “If you think I could let you go, you’re flat out mistaken. You won’t spend a single day without me, Terrence.” I turn her around to face me, stroking my palm down her soft, long hair. “Not as long as I live.” “I guess I have some abandonment issues. I never realized how deep they run. Not until I met someone I…need so badly to feel normal. Someone I…”

"And the inscription?" "I inscribed those words because I wanted you to know, in some small way, that I was still there with you, watching out for you. That you weren't alone. That I hadn't just abandoned you. The quotation was because I knew that one day you would need to embrace the seemingly impossible. Today is that day, Cooper." "Well, all that meaning was lost on a very sad and lonely one-year-old," Cooper said, a bite to her voice.

When Adrian Hale chose Rosalie Quinn for the tenth time, I was hanging helplessly over the cliff’s edge. He clutched a rope in one hand, the web between his thumb and forefinger worn raw and bloody. Rosalie was sobbing so hard she could barely breathe. “Adrian, I’m scared…” He hesitated for only a second before pulling out a dagger and cutting through the rope on my side. “Clara, hold on. I’ll come back for you after I save Rosalie.” The system counted down in my ear. [The tenth abandonment has been confirmed.] [Life countdown: zero.] Before I fell, I didn’t wait for him to turn around like I had the previous nine times. I only smiled at him. “Adrian Hale, we’re even now.”

I gave my mom the occasional nod, but I was mostly quiet, unimpressed. To be honest, I was a bit hurt that my mom made it look so easy to just leave thousands of miles away, leaving me on my own. First, my dad left, grandma got sick, and now my mom was leaving me... I'm going to end up forever alone in this world, aren't I? Darn you abandonment issues. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

"Enough is enough!" "You see. You can't... because you love me like I love you. " "Enough is enough! I don't love you! You are clingy and demanding towards the people who love you! I'm sure that is why everyone abandons you in the end, it's because you are ... You are.... grrr... Your presence in my life is suffocating me... I can't take it anymore! I want you to disappear from my life once and for all! "

Mentally blocked and in disbelief, I kept denying to myself that Mom was gone. Truth be told, I knew within me that Mom intended to end her life. She couldn’t take going on because of so much depression. I felt it stabbed me deeply that mom ended her life rather than live with me and persevere. It hurts me terribly that Dad abandoned us and then Mom left me alone, too. “Did I worth nothing to them?”

I told him. "You don't have to worry because I won't leave you, sweetie. Your thoughts might possibly come true because that's where we can end up. If the people who truly loved you abandoned you, you still have me. I won't leave you because the same thing will happen to me. We'll have the same situations in the end. If they leave you, I would be abandoned too. You're not alone in this game, sweetie. You have me no matter what happens," he said as he looked at my eyes.