Affection Quote by Emory R. Frie

“Orphans have many parents.”

— Adriana Trigiani

“We all have blind spots when it comes to family.”

— Maria Snyder

“The real orphans are words, always stumbling about to capture what must be said. And here they go again.”

— Nathan Leslie

“We are the orphans of our son.”

— Gabriel García Márquez

“There was a sweetness in my voice I found nauseating. I made a note to myself never to have children. Or at least not…

— Tod Goldberg

“. . . for not an orphan in the wide world can be so deserted as the child who is an outcast from a living parent's love.”

— Charles Dickens

“You really don’t like your father, do you?” He glowered. “Let’s just say he would have eaten me if my mother hadn’t been nearly…

— Dave Ferraro

“Orphan care is not about us; it’s about them.”

— Johnny Carr

“You poor lonely boy,' she cried, 'it's so dreadful for you to have no parents.' Well, as my mother was a whore, and my…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“The boys didn’t say a word. They stared at their mother, through to the back of her eyes, looking for her, but unable to…

— Holliday Vann

“Orphanages are the only places that ever left me feeling empty and full at the same time.”

— John M. Simmons

“I can speak of our baby like this to no one else. Who but his father would linger over the exact width of his…

— Phillippa Gregory