Books Quote by Paula Gruben

“I began to read everything I could find on adoption. It amazes me that, prior to starting therapy, I had never done it. I…

— Zara Phillips

“What I wasn't prepared for was the realization that an adopted person is always an adopted person and that there will always be passages…

— Zara Phillips

“Adoption is a lifelong journey. It means different things to me at different times. Sometimes it is just a part of who I am.…

— Kelly DiBenedetto

“Adoption isn't just a childhood experience, it's a life-long experience.”

— DaShanne Stokes

“My life has been shaped by the decision two people made over 24 years ago. They decided to adopt a child. They got me,…

— Karen Fowler

“Because adoption is a lifelong journey, we have a future filled with the potential to learn invaluable lessons. But many of us haven't been…

— Sherrie Eldridge

“Adoption is a beautiful, burdensome blessing.”

— Jody Cantrell Dyer

“Adopted children are self-invented because we have to be; there is an absence, a void, a question mark at the very beginning of our…

— Jeannette Winterson

“For me, adoption was grief in reverse.”

— Jody Cantrell Dyer

“The writer was able to capture many of the feelings that I actually had as a abandoned and then adopted child. Actually I have…

— David Brodzinsky

“I strongly believe that to heal from the adoption wound we all have to grieve our losses individually and then together. I don't regret…

— Zara Phillips

“Adoption is grief in reverse.”

— Jody Cantrell Dyer