Dismissed Quotes

“When someone you loved finds no flattery in the gift you gave them then you must ask yourself, "What was worth loving?”
― Shannon Alder

“You will learn how much someone loved you, by how quickly they dismiss you.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Human on human crimes should never be forgotten, or dismissed by time. We are all related here and are linked by spirit.”
― Gayle Wray

“They” (her new husbands, Egypt and Babylon) heard of Jeremiah’s and Isaiah’s public declaration of divorce. (Jer 3:8; Is 50:1)
Yet another oblique reference to divorced Hagar. Hagar had been properly dismissed—by her husband, Abraham. Hagar, however, was better than Judah. She may have created division in Abraham’s household, but at least Hagar maintained her relationship with Jehovah.”
― Michael Ben Zehabe, Lamentations: how narcissistic leaders torment church and family

“I believe that disclosure represents a particular kind of inventional site within autism land. Because autism, in the cultural imagination, is an ambiguous and often mystery-laden construct, any disclosure around autism invokes questions, invokes guesswork, incites demands for particularity. One cannot claim autism without being pressed for more -- more information, more cross-examination, more refutation, more response, more words flowing from more mouths.

But there is likewise a problem of ethos (or kakoethos, to quote Jenell Johnson) inherent in these disclosures, wherein autistic people are figured as lacking authority to speak on or from within autism. Autistic academic Dinah Murray laments these figurations of autism and ethos, noting, "Disclosure of an autism spectrum diagnosis means disclosure of the fundamentally flawed personhood implied by [autism's] diagnostic criteria. It is likely to precipitate a negative judgment of capacity involving permanent loss of credibility."

In disclosing autism, we are both too autistic and not autistic enough...”
― Melanie Yergeau, Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness

“What are you doing here?' Her lips twisted with displeasure.

'I just saved your friend's life.' Chaos replied sharply.

And was it just Evangeline's imagination, or did he puff out his chest?
...
'Well, I'm here now, so-' Lala waved a hand toward the forest.

'Did you just dismiss me?' Castor asked.

'I tried,' Lala said.”
― Stephanie Garber, A Curse for True Love

“As I thought. I didn't appreciate you properly. I dismissed your desire for knighthood. I dismissed your capacity for strategy, for strength- and for cruelty. That was my mistake, and one I will not make again.'

I am not sure if that's a threat or an apology.”
― Holly Black, The Wicked King

“I always go to court regarding police citations. The citations have always been dismissed by the judge.”
― Steven Magee

“If you’ve ever felt dismissed, let me say this clearly: Their inability to see your value doesn’t diminish your worth. It only reveals that their vision is blurred.”
― Hagir Elsheikh