“My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.”
“I abandon them, I abandon my honour”
“God does not abandon men, my son. Men abandon God.”
“Probably everything in my life comes back to a feeling of abandonment, and this city never abandons you.”
“Oh, that fear of his self-abandonment—far worse than my abandonment—how it goaded me! It was a barbed arrow-head in my breast; it tore me when I tried to extract it; it sickened me when remembrance thrust it farther in.”
“I know this simple fact to be true, for I myself have abandoned people who did not want me to go, and I myself have been abandoned by those whom I begged to stay.”