Kathi Appelt Quotes

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

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

A lot of friends have given up on me.

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

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

The little things that made up the fabric of the first six years of my life were suddenly ripped away, and I didn't have anyone around me who loved me. Not one single person.

If you live for your children, they may be smitten down and leave you desolate, or, what is far worse, they may desert you and leave you worse than childless in a cold and unfeeling world.

You have turned me out; you have turned me out.

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

There were times when close people… Some of my closest friends have left me. People hurt me, so everything fell apart. I didn't feel like I had anyone on my side or anyone who could understand me. So that's why I completely fell apart.

It's very hard, feeling that you're no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.

I was in such a state of mental shock and quickly spiraled into a depression at the multitude of loss. My husband, I thought, was going to leave me. I was cut off from this mentor and someone I cared for very much, David Petraeus, who also did nothing to stand up for me and in fact, empowered his surrogates to throw me under the bus, and that was devastating.

I felt a bottomless sadness. So completely alone. Like one of my stuffed animals at home that I was too old for now, that sat on the shelf in my closet, mashed against the back wall.

You got me sitting on the shelf, while you're out bewitching someone else.

I've never really been wanted.

I didn't have a home in the world, so I wanted a home in a person. I felt like I had found that, and then it was taken away from me.

To be abandoned like that! Shut out when you most need to be loved.

I know this simple fact to be true, for I myself have abandoned people who did not want me to go, and I myself have been abandoned by those whom I begged to stay.

this lifeless paper, cruel imposter, was the only to take her with him

When David left me I became totally brokenhearted.

The delta blues is a low-down, dirty shame blues. It's a sad, big wide sound, something to make you think about people who are dead or the women who left you.

Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.

I would have to say loneliness is next to uncleanliness.

You can't put abandonment and alienation under arrest.

For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?