Anne Sexton Quotes

My father, my Mormon father, took off when I was a young man and, or actually very young, I was like six years old, so a young boy.

Many feel sorry for a person like David Platt. He was abandoned by his father, his mother wanted to abort him and his stepdad wanted him dead.

I felt abandoned at a young age. That's where most of my anger came from, I guess.

My childhood was bad. No father. Mother was greedy and brought me up awful - never made me breakfast once. I don't want to get started. One story is worse than another.

As a little girl I used to daydream about my real father coming on a white horse to rescue me.

I've overcome neglect and deprivation, abandonment and abuse.

I remember being a kid and praying in the hell of my house to have somebody love me and somebody that I could love.

Only reprobates father children and then abandon them.

I used to be a dusty little child.

I was a child, and my mother was psychotic. She loved me, but I didn't really feel I had a mother. And when you live with somebody who is paranoid and thinks you're trying to kill them all the time, you tend to feel a little betrayed.

My mom put me away at 7. I enjoyed it... Being in institutions, I got three meals a day, clothes.

I was raised an orphan... My mother died when I was 2 years old.

I finally got the dad I always wanted and then he left. At 18, 19 years old, I was really upset and had to work through that.

Growing up without love, without being cared for, might be the worst type of poverty.

When I was about eight, my mom started disappearing for days at a time, probably with one of the guys she was dating. There would be no food.

You watch yourself. One day you're going to pick a hole in the sky and the universe is gonna fall right through. Then we'll all be in a fix

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.

Dolls with no little girls around to mind them were sort of creepy under any conditions.

When I was 3, my father stopped coming home.

When I was born, my father wanted to drown me, but my mother persuaded him to let me live in disguise, to see if I could bring any wealth to the household.

Gravity Falls has transformed the children of America into an army of Dippers. I couldn't be more proud!

I saw that it was all over, put away in a box like a doll no longer cared for, the magical intimacy of our childhood together

My father and mother split and I never saw my father until I was 20, nor did I see much more of my mother.

Whatever became of the moment when one first knew about death? There must have been one. A moment. In childhood. When it first occurred to you that you don’t go on forever. It must have been shattering, stamped into one’s memory. And yet, I can’t remember it.

The day my father died seemed longer than my entire childhood. The day I felt my first success seemed fleeting, hour-long, not long enough perhaps. I wondered where it went. Even the cycle of time confounds me. I work till dark, until sunrise on most days and fall asleep as the world awakens to light. My friends call me an owl. I like to think of myself as Batman – the prince of darkness.