Hope Was Here Abandonment Quotes

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Quote #7

"Now the best thing you've got going for you is that your mother really cares about you. I know this is true because she's making the rest of us half nuts with all her worrying. My mother couldn't have cared less and I know that affected my eating in the beginning." (130)

Hope identifies with baby Anastasia's trouble drinking from a bottle and works with the infant until she gets the hang of it. Hope has a motherly touch, even if she did learn a thing or two about bottle-feeding by once watching a veterinarian coax Miriam Lahey's dog to eat.

Quote #8

Braverman and I decided to leave for school at the same time. Neither of us wanted to be the one left in the diner waving good-bye. (182)

Can one ever really abandon the fear of abandonment after being abandoned? We'd love to stick around to discuss this one, but we've really got to be going.