Adoption Quote by Walter Isaacson

“Portia countered with something cutting and I left my sisters quarrelling over the details whilst I mooned about, waiting for a letter from Brisbane.…

— Deanna Raybourn

“For me, adoption was grief in reverse.”

— Jody Cantrell Dyer

“She was married now, and suddenly she understood what it was her mother had been trying so hard to tell her on her wedding…

— Julia Quinn

“She was broken and lonely, and beyond everything else, she missed her husband so much that even the uncertain possibility of a life with…

— Blake Crouch

“According to Aunt Jolene, she was so young.  Having a baby was overwhelming.  My dad bailed on her.  She was lost and went wild.”

— Chelsea Camaron

“It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.”

— Anonymous

“And so I would ask you if you would do me the honor of becoming my wife?" As he spoke, she saw him glance…

— Megan Frampton

“Or maybe she wants to believe that he found her on purpose. Even Janie can have her dreams.”

— Lisa McMann

“Well, dammit, if that was what it took to find her birth family, she’d bloody well find someone to marry.”

— Annie Seaton

“he already decided she was marrying him no matter what. Informing her that they were getting married was just a courtesy”

— R.L. Mathewson

“I knew before marriage to Henrietta Collyer that she and I should never have come together, but a young man’s sense of honor, so…

— Christina Stead

“The papers are signed. The papers are sealed. The adoption is completed. You are the adopted sons and daughters of the Most High God.…

— Maisie A. Smikle