Parenting Quote by Jodi Picoult

“I’d had this idea that my birth mother was waiting for me to get in touch, and that we’d have this fantastic reunion. When…

— Adele Abbott

“My mother said once that we were all hers already. We just hadn't found each other before.”

— Nora Roberts

“Dna doesn't make up a family love does.”

— The Fosters

“It was nice, them having this kind of knowledge about each other. No one else knew this about him. She supposed in every person…

— Kathleen Gilles Seidel

“They did the best they could. Besides I was hardly a stranger. I had known your grandmother. We were like this." She twined her…

— Gregory Maguire

“Because of the age difference, I assumed they were related, mother/daughter. But they weren’t. They were father/son/possible lovers.”

— Jarod Kintz

“I watched my birth mother as she chatted to Dad, and took in her beautiful smile.”

— Katrina Kahler

“Are you sure you weren't adopted?" "Mom would like to think so, but it was a natural birth, so her memory's real clear.”

— Jana Deleon

“Gaining a mom, even one who had waited fifty-odd years to reveal herself... that wasn't something to throw away lightly.”

— Rick Riordan

“Tonight I attend my thirty-fifth high school reunion with some trepidation. I have not seen most of these former classmates for thirty-some years. I…

— Mary Potter Kenyon

“Once she’d realized she’d never meet her mother’s expectations, it didn’t seem real important to meet anyone else’s.”

— Carla Cassidy

“All these stupid old people. Had every last one of them met, heard of, gossiped about, or smelled her mom in the distance? Way…

— Thea Harrison