“Every broken heart has screamed at one time or another, "I want to know why!”
― Shannon L. Alder

“So often, the discarded love of youth is desperately yearned for in maturity.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman

“She made dramatic plans in the darkness and discarded them in daylight.”
― T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone

“It is better, perhaps, to be thought of as a fiction than to be discarded from memory completely.”
― Roshani Chokshi, Aru Shah and the End of Time

“They're brainless girls, otherwise they wouldn't be seen dead here. They're pretty, with ugly, appealing smiles and conversations we can't hear. They breathe smoke and blow it out, and words drop from their mouths and get crushed to the floor. Or they get discarded, just to glow with warmth for a moment, for someone else to tread on later.”
― Markus Zusak, Fighting Ruben Wolfe

“I don't feel like a person at all: I am something to be loaded and unloaded, like a sofa or a cuckoo clock. I am something to be tossed into a junkyard, thrown into the river, if necessary. I don't feel real anymore. I feel like I could disappear.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“A gift involves sacrifice. If you give away something that you no longer value or want, it cannot be a gift. It is simply a discarded item.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman

“we lived depravity
and called it truth, silencing
our dreaming, and
our love, discarding
things holy.”
― John Daniel Thieme, paulinskill hours and other poems

“She found a second blanket in the closet and curled up on the bed, feeling like the discarded toy of a spoiled child. She found a strange sort of comfort in the heat of her misery as the cold chilled her tears. In time, she would look up words like 'doormat' and 'wimp,' with Merriam-Webster definitions that would expose her to the faulty clockwork of her heart.”
― Angela Panayotopulos, The Wake Up

“Don’t be retarded; excellence is “status quo discarded”. Look ahead and don’t see the little things you do now as the final products to ever stand out of your personal actions!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“And no matter what
closet we were thrown in,
up what river we were sold
for an embarrassment,
or worse, traded
for a bottle of gin--
we’d carry on in
playful stitches, friends
‘til the end…which came
sooner than wished.”
― Kristen Henderson, Of My Maiden Smoking

“It won’t matter if you turned cartwheels in bed for him and performed circusworthy stunts.”
― Serena Prince, What You Need To Know About Narcissists: Why Cartwheels In Bed & Circusworthy Stunts Won’t Matter

“A theory is nothing but a tool to know the reality. If a theory contradicts reality, it must be discarded at the earliest.”
― Awdhesh Singh, Myths are Real, Reality is a Myth

“The route to success often has a pariah phase along the way.”
― Steven Magee

“I left a lifetime of vigilance piled on the ground like a forgotten coat.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night