Unwanted Child Quotes

“Why didn't I feel that I belonged to my parents? How early could I have known that I was not right? I think it has always been part of me. Can a newborn sense her parents' disappointment and feelings of frustration at not being able to change the unchangeable?”
― Joan Frances Casey, The Flock: The Autobiography of a Multiple Personality

“The scar she'd left her was so deep that it may take a thousand million years to heal. She couldn't pretend like nothing had happened. She couldn't shut her feelings, like how you shut a window blind; once you did it, all lights from the outside would be swept away from the room. It had taken her years to acknowledge the fact that she was unwanted; a subject of shame for her mother to sink in. And for sure, it would take her more than nine years to forget it all, in one go.”
― Diyar Harraz, One Minute to Midnight

“She'd brought everybody apart, tearing the whole family that was once a compact groundwork into a whole new design, ugly and non-structured.”
― Diyar Harraz, One Minute to Midnight

“For I was indeed a student of human nature, as every orphan and hooker and unwanted kid must be.”
― Carol Edgarian, Vera

“Why didn't I feel that I belonged to my parents? How could I have known that I was not right? I think it has always been part of me. Can a newborn sense her parents' disappointment and feelings of frustration at not being able to change the unchangeable?”
― Joan Frances Casey, The Flock: The Autobiography of a Multiple Personality