being forgotten Quotes

“We’re both leftovers”

“‘Well, Call, I guess they forgot us, like they forgot the Alamo,’ Augustus said. ‘Why wouldn’t they?’ Call asked. ‘We ain’t been around.’ ‘That ain’t the reason—the reason is we didn’t die.‘”

“Clean forgot what day it was,”

“Who knew where they would tuck him away if he tried to make them aware of his existence, and therefore also of the fact that, strictly speaking, he has nothing more than an obstacle on the way to the animal sheds.”

“My life is like a lone, forgotten Q-Tip in the second-to-last drawer.”

“At this moment Tip, who thought that he was being altogether forgotten, left his place behind the carriage and calmly went and lay down again on the hearthrug. However, he soon jumped up again, for Maurice pretended that the horses were running away.”

“You wouldn’t like to be forgotten as if you had never been born.”