Kathi Appelt Quotes

You can't put abandonment and alienation under arrest.

I always think of the word 'abandonment' when I think of the character.

Maybe some day they'll find me behind the computer, just bones and cobwebs.

It would be very unjust to say that you deserted me, but that I was deserted, and sometimes terribly so, is true.

For tea she went down to see Misses Spink and Forcible. She had three digestive biscuits, a glass of limeade, and a cup of weak tea. The limeade was very interesting. It didn't taste anything like limes. It tasted bright green and vaguely chemical. Coraline liked it enormously. She wished they had it at home. "How are your dear mother and father?" asked Miss Spink. "Missing," said Coraline. "I haven't seen either of them since yesterday. I'm on my own. I think I've probably become a single child family.

If I had someone buttering me up, maybe I'd have worked out. You don't even know where I came from. Nobody wants to come out here.

These people picked you up and played with you and then left you lying in the rain

So I walked away and left him standing there in the moonlight - watching over nothing.

I've decided that the worst part of loneliness isn't being alone. It's being forgotten.

I'm lucky that I haven't been left out in the cold like Mumta Kulkarni or Meghna Kothari.

When she needed help most, she was abandoned.

It's very unbalanced actually, to be real. Everything's like deserted.

Dill?" Mm?" Why do you reckon Boo Radleys never run off?" Dill sighed a long sigh and turned away from me. Maybe he doesn't have anywhere to run off to

But I know the difference. Everyone else is a ghost. I exist here alone, stranded by choice. Deserted.

What have I to do with millions [of people]? The eighty I know despise me.

Everything hurt. I closed my eyes, pressing my cheek to the street, and waited. What for, I didn't know. To be rescued. Or found. But no one came. All I'd ever thought I wanted was to be left alone. Until I was.

The clothes are packed off to Goodwill I said my good-byes up on the hill The house is empty, the furniture sold Soon your smell will decay to mold Don't know why I bother calling, ain't nobody answering Don't know why I bother singing, ain't nobody listening "Disconnect" Collateral Damage, Track 10

I've never really been wanted.

There is a core of loneliness. It's partly existential. Secondly, I was raised a loner. My parents were not there. My father was asked to leave because he couldn't metabolize ethanol. Actually, my mother ran away with us when I was 2 months old and my brother was 5. Real dramatic stuff: down the fire escape, through backyards. So, I sort of raised myself. I was alone a lot and I invented myself - I lived through the radio and through my imagination.

The wretched have no friends.

Johnny, can't you come out to play in your empty garden?

I had no advice, no counsel, no encouragement, no consolation, no assistance, no support, of any kind, from anyone, that I can call to mind, as I hope to go to heaven!

My daddy left home when I was three and he didn't leave much to Ma and me, just this old guitar and an empty bottle of booze.

Quit the world, and the world forgets you.

Sometimes I feel like a caretaker of a museum -- a huge, empty museum where no one ever comes, and I'm watching over it for no one but myself.