Giovanni Falcone Quotes

No money, no family, 16 in the middle of Miami.

No one checked to see if I had a place to live or food to eat, and at 14, I found myself basically on my own.

My emotions overload because there is no hand to hold, there’s no shoulder here to lean on; I’m walking all on my own.

If I faltered, there would be no arms to hold me and the world would be a cold and forbidding place.

Ain't nobody gonna care enough to catch you fall.

I broke down. I hid under the bed because I was afraid that somebody was going to come for me. I don’t know who that someone was but I was just so scared. Not a single person at any level of government took any note of me. No one checked to see if I had a place to live or food to eat, and at 14, I found myself basically on my own.

When she needed help most, she was abandoned.

I know what it is like to feel vulnerable and fearful during a difficult time.

I don't have anybody to weep for me, except my mother.

Even close people left me - I was hurt by them and felt there was nobody who understands me, which made me fall apart.

No one has it easy, and to some degree, everyone feels lonely and powerless, which may cause them to make hurtful decisions.

The thing about Lucifer is that by the end of the first season, his world is falling apart a bit. Anyone that he could call an ally or trust, he now can't, and that leaves him in a place that he's never been before.

Not listening to people who care about you, not to be open or transparent, will make you isolated.

Oh, my God, I literally only have, like, one friend that I'm actually completely, like, myself with.

I think I felt very alone for a lot of my life, but once I was able to share my story more and more, and people wouldn't say, 'Hey, I felt sorry for you,' but, 'I get it, and I understand you,' it kind of encouraged me to tell it more. I just don't want people to feel alone.

On my travels I, at least, did not see Serbia as a land of paranoiacs - much more as the huge room of an orphaned, yes, an orphaned, abandoned child.

My wife at home. She didn't have a pregnant belly anymore, nobody to cling to, no shoulder to cry on, no one to talk to, while I'm at work getting the love and everybody just patting me on the back. I was mad. I felt that I should be at home helping my best friend get past the grief.

To feel abandoned is to deny the intimacy of your surroundings.

"Cammie!" I'll never forget the tone of Macey's voice in that moment. "Cam," she said slowly, moving toward me, "I know how it feels to be watched every second of every day. I know what it's like to trust fewer and fewer people until it seems like you are completely alone in the world. I know you think the only things that are left in your life are the bad things. I know what you're feeling, Cam." Her hands were on my shoulders. Her blue eyes were staring into mine. "I know."

There are times when the kindness of strangers only makes things worse because one realizes how badly one is in need of kindness and that the only source is a stranger.

My life used to be full of everything. Now if you aren't with me I haven't a thing in the world.

She was overstrained with grief and loneliness: almost any shoulder would have done as well.

If we're isolated, we come to feel powerless when we're not.

Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.

I really wanted to emphasize the idea of the women being isolated and abandoned . . . and they weren't raised to take care of themselves, so they had to learn to survive.