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1 " She turned back to Jace. " Do you have to be so-," she began, but stopped when she saw his face. It looked stripped down, oddly vulnerable." Unpleasant?" he finishes for her. " Only at days when my adoptive mother tosses me out of the house with instructions never to darken her door again. Usually I'm remarkably good-natured. Try me on any day that doesn't end in y. "
2 " I believe one of the most sacrificial acts of love adoptive parents can do is to give up their preconceptions and agendas about what their child's views " should" be and be open to hear the conflicting emotions and thoughts their child often experiences. "
3 " The adoptee benefits because his collective parents are permitted to grow secure in their particular roles in his life. His adoptive parents are not unwittingly encouraged to compete to possess him. Nor are his birth parents punished and banished from a place in his life. "
4 " Adoption is a wonderful way of becoming a family. If being a biological parent is any better or more rewarding than being an adoptive parent, I really don't think I could stand it! "
5 " My story ended where so many stories have ended since the Rising: with a man—in this case, my adoptive brother and best friend, Shaun—holding a gun to the base of my skull as the virus in my blood betrayed me, transforming me from a thinking human being into something better suited to a horror movie. "
― Mira Grant , Blackout (Newsflesh, #3)
6 " I was a sickly baby, and after two sets of adoptive parents took me home, they returned me to the orphanage because of a serious respiratory infection. But as they say, the third time's a charm, because my mom and dad adopted me and took me into their home where I was raised in a family full of love. "
