For my sake,” he said firmly, addressing the air in front of him as though it were a tribunal, “I Diana want ye to bear another child. I wouldn risk your loss, Sassenach,” he said, his voice suddenly husky. “Not for a dozen bairns. I have daughters and sons, nieces and nephews, grandchildren—weans enough.” He looked at me directly then, and spoke softly.“But I have no life but you, Claire.” He swallowed audibly, and went on, eyes fixed on mine.“I did think, though. . . If ye do want another child. . . Perhaps I could still give ye one.

— Diana Gabaldon

Happiness is a conscious choice we make for ourselves. It has to come from within.

— Beau Sides

Having a blood family means suddenly revising a definition of family that I have, over many years, learned to accept. How can I hold both concepts in my mind or find room for both families in my heart?

— Soojung Jo

He was taking a leap here, negotiating with a crackhead, under the table, in a dark cantina. The courage etched on his face came from loving Aida so much he’d close his eyes and walk through fire to see her safe.

— Laura Anderson Kurk

However, motherhood comes to you, it's a miracle.

— Valerie Harper

... I am about eight years old when I first become aware of being other--foreign, outside, separate. Because this lesson comes from my own family, it resonates deeper and truer than playground taunts ever have.

— Soojung Jo

I believe one of the most sacrificial acts of love adoptive parents can do is to give up their preconceptions and agendas about what their child's views "should" be and be open to hear the conflicting emotions and thoughts their child often experiences.

— Sherrie Eldridge

I don't know anyone who remembers meeting their parents when they were a baby so I'm just like everybody else. -Zoey (100% Real)

— Tara Michener

I don't understand this--when people love you so much they are willing to get rid of you. I think if I loved someone that much I'd want to stay with them. It doesn't make sense that love would make a mother leave, and I wonder when this mother will love me that much too. I get the idea that love might be something to both desire and fear, and maybe if we don't love each other too much I won't have to go away again. I wonder why love works for everyone else, but it doesn't work for me.

— Soojung Jo

If every Christian family in the United States would simply commit to pray and ask God if HE wants to use them to bless a child without a family, well, we'd change the world. If we can get the church to think about adoption not in terms of the desires of adults but in terms of the needs of children, I think we'd see on a much grander scale how God sets the lonely in families.

— Kelly Rosati