left alone Quotes

“The tears were hot in Salva’s eyes. Where had everyone gone? Why had they left without waking him? He knew the answer: because he was a child . . . who might tire easily and slow them down, and complain about being hungry, and cause trouble somehow.”

“He knows it will be hard for me, Salva realized. He does not want to leave me there, but he has to go back and fight for our people.”

“I mustn’t act like a bay—I must try to be strong.”

“He was living proof of one of my worst fears: Your parents really could die and leave you alone in the world.”

“I figured if anything happened to Mom, I would be alone on this planet.”

″[That] was why Yura was so shaken by his mother’s death, because he had been lost in that forest with her and was suddenly left alone in it, without her.”

“He was all alone with his medal.”

“He was alone. In the roaring plane with no pilot he was alone. Alone.”

“Oscar says, ‘Doing whatever you like can get tiresome after a while. I sometimes get a little bored watching the same old shows on TV. I even have to get my own supper.‘”

“The wind blew across the water, shattering the tips of the waves and shooting ice-sparklets north with the storm. ‘Kapugen!’ she called. No one answered. Kapugen was gone. The earth was empty and bleak.”

“Jennifer Jones won’t leave me alone. She sits by my side. She shouts in my ear.”

“The King sighed so heavily, and seemed so low-spirited, and sat down so miserably, leaning his head upon his hand, and his elbow upon the kitchen table pushed away in the corner, that the seventeen Princes and Princesses crept softly out of the kitchen, and left him alone with the Princess Alicia and the angelic baby.”

″‘You should have left me alone,’ said the lion. ‘I eat only apples.‘”