Adoption Quote by Janet Louise Stephenson

“There's something about dealing in death that brings out the maternal in me.”

— Leslie Langtry

“Supposedly she’d died, but here she was again–somewhat changed, but you couldn’t kill her. Not when the truest part of her hadn’t even been…

— Denis Johnson

“Death, like birth, was part of the package of life. She had come to peace with that. It was those of us who were…

— Tom Ryan

“They say a girl with an ill-fated mother is doomed to follow in her footsteps.”

— K.X. Song

“With the last months spent preparing to face this darkness, it was improbable that the end of her story would be a happy one.…

— Jess Bowen

“It wasn’t dying that she feared, it was dying bad: leaving her grandboy alone in the world, unprotected, his wounds unhealed. Death, which walked…

— Taylor Brown

“Death was such a mystery. The complete disappearance of something as complex and miraculous as a living, breathing human being had always been beyond…

— G.A. McKevett

“But just as no one really knows what it is like to be a mother until she holds her first child, no one who…

— Gregg Olsen

“What would she have made of her life in the absence of childbirth? Maybe no more than she did in its presence and to…

— Debbie McGowan

“What isn’t a risk? Birth comes with a death sentence. Every breath I take could be my last.”

— Tiffany Reisz

“she decided that this world was a place of deep mystery and enchantment, with occasional episodes of terror to give it texture. Death was…

— Dean Koontz