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“The truth is you can be orphaned again and again and again. The truth is, you will be. And the secret is, this will hurt less and less each time until you can't feel a thing. Trust me on this.”
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“Perhaps there are those who are able to go about their lives unfettered by such concerns. But for those like us, our fate is to face the world as orphans, chasing through long years the shadows of vanished parents. There is nothing for it but to try and see through our missions to the end, as best we can, for until we do so, we will be permitted no calm.”
― When We Were Orphans
― When We Were Orphans

“If we cannot relate anymore to the world that we live in, we are bound to remain like orphans, forlorn in the wasteland of our desires. ("Non mais, t'as vu l'heure !")”
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“There," she said. She rocked him back and forth. "There, you foolish, beautiful boy who wants to change the world. There, there. And who could keep from loving you? Who could keep from loving a boy so brave and true?”
― The Magician's Elephant
― The Magician's Elephant

“When you lose your parents as a child, you are indoctrinated into a club, you re taken into life's severest confidence. You are undeceived.”
― Anthropology of an American Girl
― Anthropology of an American Girl

“The purpose of having the orphans study all these diverse fields was not for them to just become geniuses, but to become polymaths 鈥� meaning they would be geniuses in a wide variety of fields.”
― The Ninth Orphan
― The Ninth Orphan

“The women laughed and wept; the crowd stamped their feet enthusiastically, for at that moment Quasimodo was really beautiful. He was handsome 鈥� this orphan, this foundling, this outcast.”
― The Hunchback of Notre Dame
― The Hunchback of Notre Dame

“I reached down and picked up a baseball bat at my feet and I flung it as hard as it could. It circled and arced high in the air until it slammed against the side of the dining hall with a crack and fell.
I sat down in the dirt. Then I lay down in the dirt.
Because not only was there no trail to follow, there was no evidence he鈥檇 ever been here.
There was no evidence any of them had been here.”
― Perfect Glass
I sat down in the dirt. Then I lay down in the dirt.
Because not only was there no trail to follow, there was no evidence he鈥檇 ever been here.
There was no evidence any of them had been here.”
― Perfect Glass

“Mother was anchor. Mother was comfort. Mother was home. A girl who lost her mother was suddenly a tiny boat on an angry ocean. Some boats eventually floated ashore. And some boats, like me, seemed to float farther and farther from land.”
― Salt to the Sea
― Salt to the Sea

“Orphans are the only ones who get to choose their fathers, and they love them twice as much.”
― The Orphan Master's Son
― The Orphan Master's Son

“Jerusha leaned forward watching with curiosity - and a touch of wistfulness - the stream of carriages and automobiles that rolled out of the asylum gates. In imagination she followed first one equipage, then another, to the big houses dotted along the hillside. She pictured herself in a fur coat and a velvet hat trimmed with feathers leaning back in the seat and nonchalantly murmuring "Home" to the driver. But on the door-sill of her home the picture grew blurred.”
― Daddy-Long-Legs
― Daddy-Long-Legs

“If your brother can't 'old 'is own against a bunch of orphans, 'e'd best leave off playing 'azard altogether!”
― The Weaver Takes a Wife
― The Weaver Takes a Wife

“Because DSS pay is basically the fuck-you peanut butter sandwich type of paycheck. That鈥檚 what the big world thinks it鈥檚 worth, to save white-trash orphans.”
― Demon Copperhead
― Demon Copperhead

“Tell me, Theodore, were you playing against orphans, by any chance?”
― The Weaver Takes a Wife
― The Weaver Takes a Wife

“Maybe only an orphan can understand this, but we had been cut free from our anchor and the blow was crushing. We didn't know who we were, and more importantly, we didn't know whose we were -- forever proving that identity precedes purpose. You can't know who you are until you've settled whose you are.
[Bones, to Murphy Shepherd, about himself and his brother Frank]”
― The Record Keeper
[Bones, to Murphy Shepherd, about himself and his brother Frank]”
― The Record Keeper

“It can take billions of years for light to reach us through the galaxies, which is to say, History is ever arriving. So it's most likely that the decision, seemingly all mine, was already made years ago by someone else, which is to say, language 鈥� that is to say, translation 鈥� always arises from collective consciousness.”
― DMZ Colony
― DMZ Colony
“They're bartering for costumes. Grace has a big heart. She lends costumes to those who can't afford the full rental price. Kids repay her with candy, after they've been trick-or-treating."
Bartering? This he had to see. He walked toward them, only to stop by a rack of capes. He squinted between hangers, staying hidden. He recognized the children. Each of them lived with single parents or in a foster home. For all of them, money would be tight. Most couldn't afford a cool costume.”
― The Cottage on Pumpkin and Vine
Bartering? This he had to see. He walked toward them, only to stop by a rack of capes. He squinted between hangers, staying hidden. He recognized the children. Each of them lived with single parents or in a foster home. For all of them, money would be tight. Most couldn't afford a cool costume.”
― The Cottage on Pumpkin and Vine

“Greed will always welcome orphans into the mix and become the parents that the children wished for in the first place.”
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“It's funny how children can still go on even after their parents have died. You'd think it was only polite for someone who gave you entrance to the world to see you through it.”
― Happy Hour
― Happy Hour

“Despite being surrounded by donors, caretakers and volunteers at all hours of the day, orphanage life can be lonely.”
― Forest In The Wilderness: Life Inside A Ghanaian Orphanage
― Forest In The Wilderness: Life Inside A Ghanaian Orphanage

“Suddenly there were hands that we didn鈥檛 recognize, and we became strangers.”
― Such Small Hands
― Such Small Hands

“We have orphans, I know," pursued Mr Milvey, quite with the air as if he might have added, "in stock," and quite as anxiously as if there were great competition in the business and he were afraid of losing an order, "over at the clay-pits; but they are employed by relations or friends, and I am afraid it would come at last to a transaction in the way of barter.”
― Our Mutual Friend
― Our Mutual Friend

“You鈥檝e got a newborn at home? That right?鈥�
His smile softened the chilly air, and Haki was confident she鈥檇 made the right move.
鈥淟eia,鈥� he said. 鈥淪he鈥檚 our first. War orphan.鈥�
鈥淔irst is a trip. Second is easier but never easy as you expect鈥攜ou figure you鈥檝e been through the worst, then the babe turns out to have their own personality. The third, though鈥� the third is sheer joy.”
― The Mask of Fear
His smile softened the chilly air, and Haki was confident she鈥檇 made the right move.
鈥淟eia,鈥� he said. 鈥淪he鈥檚 our first. War orphan.鈥�
鈥淔irst is a trip. Second is easier but never easy as you expect鈥攜ou figure you鈥檝e been through the worst, then the babe turns out to have their own personality. The third, though鈥� the third is sheer joy.”
― The Mask of Fear
“It sucks to be an orphan. Now what do we do? What is Plan B? For us, the answer was to find a new family that would provide not just the material benefits of food, shelter, and education, but also the intangible benefits that come with the love of a family.”
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