The essence of war is insanity. Destruction, death, women widowed, children orphaned, lands plundered, property destroyed, lives decimated - it's all bad.
The truth is you can be orphaned again and again and again. The truth is, you will be. And the secret is, this will hurt less and less each time until you can't feel a thing. Trust me on this.
Divorce in a young-adult novel means what being orphaned meant in a fairy tale: vulnerability, danger, unwanted independence.
As an adult, it's a huge shock to be orphaned; as a child it's just hideous, ghastly.
You can't avoid orphan stories, child. Every story is an orphan story. We are all orphaned sooner or later.
This country was filled with violent children orphaned by war.
Defeat creates orphaned thoughts.
With spirit we are all children of the cosmos; Without it we are orphaned and adrift.