Estranged Quotes

“The world needs someone they can admire from a distance; from a very far distance.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“We went our several ways," said Lady Dedlock, "and had little in common even before we agreed to differ. It is to be regretted, I suppose, but it could not be helped.”
― Charles Dickens, Bleak House

“When it comes to parental alienation or grandparent alienation, we walk around with the overwhelming emptiness of a child's absence while carrying the heaviness of their sweet and irreplaceable memory...”
― Donna Lynn Hope

“I never imagined a love so pure, nor a hate that could be so cruel.”
― Donna Lynn Hope

“Now, when she felt so deeply connected to him, they were finally estranged.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Message to the Planet

“He could go back and take her in his arms. If only he knew how to do this. But they had lost the language of their affections, they had lost the style.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Sacred and Profane Love Machine

“The regret of unfinished business is particularly oppressive, even haunting in its oppressive grief.”
― Donna Lynn Hope

“Life gave me its hand,
and I grasped it.
We’d wasted too many years
being estranged.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“I was never scared of romantic heartbreaks. To slide my body behind a closed door and cry. To leak my feelings and angst into my journal and snacks. Nope.
It was the familial heartbreaks and the ripping of long term friendships that made quiver something horrid.”
― Jasmine Farrell

“In the months since leaving my husband’s home, I asked this question of myself almost every day. So many of the labels that I had accepted over the years described relationships: daughter, sister, wife, daughter-in-law, mother. In the in-between phase of separation, was I still a wife? Could I check the box for “married” even though I didn’t (and did not want to) share a house with my estranged spouse? If I stripped off the labels that did not fit, who or what would I be? I was still a daughter, a sister, and a mother. Why then did I feel so bereft?”
― Ranjani Rao, Rewriting My Happily Ever After - A Memoir of Divorce and Discovery

“Strained Relations by Stewart Stafford

Brother, you have flown from me,
Too often and to that blinding maze,
As capricious as the wind that blows,
No visible shared blood between us.

Are you not my mother's and father's son?
If the fault lies with me, then tell me so,
Or let the bloodied bandage fall from you,
So the wound heals without reinfection.

You picked prized strangers over family,
More damaging self-flagellation as hubris,
They let you down as parents an infant,
Still, you chose a messy path of pain.

The only glimmer of light in the next life,
Is we two reuniting together again, brother,
Or shall you flee to fellow astral travellers?
A last dagger thrust in the permafrost cold?

© Stewart Stafford, 2023. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford