Adoption Quote by T. Scott McLeod

“Adoption. A realized fantasy of your parents not really being your parents. Your genes could thrust one arm in the air and pump up…

— Lorrie Moore

“If she had not adopted me, then I would've died.”

— Youko Nogiri

“I’d have given any- thing to know how Mom and Dad were, but you can’t ask your parents such questions. You have to wait…

— Beth Kephart

“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

“I don't know what happened to your parents or why they did what they did. But in all the world, I could have wished…

— John Stephens

“I’m an only child, so logically I gave birth to my parents, because if it weren’t for me they wouldn’t be parents at all,…

— Jarod Kintz

“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

“The life I'd had was disappearing. Every adult who had ever held me as a baby was dead and no one would ever carry…

— Sarah Schmidt

“Was my father someone else? And if he was someone else, who was I?”

— André Aciman

“I would not have dreamed back then, could never have imagined, that one day I would be a childless mother too.”

— Lori Lansens

“You can’t help who your parents are or aren’t. My parents aren’t—they don’t exist and have never existed.”

— Jarod Kintz

“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