Birth Parents Quotes

“Adoption is a beautiful, burdensome blessing.”
― Jody Cantrell Dyer, The Eye of Adoption: The True Story of My Turbulent Wait for a Baby

“No one 'just adopts'.”
― Jody Cantrell Dyer, The Eye of Adoption: The True Story of My Turbulent Wait for a Baby

“All these years I thought I had been protecting a space alien from the government." She laughed and it was dry and filled with sadness. "And now I find out that I've been protecting something evil."
Catty started shaking. "What did you read?"
Kendra looked down at the manuscript. Her finger ran across a line as she translated it. "The child of a fallen goddess and an evil spirit will take possession of the Secret Scroll without fear of its curse."
"You think that's me?" Catty asked nervously. Could she be the daughter of a fallen goddess and an evil spirit?”
― Lynne Ewing, The Secret Scroll

“I feared that you were the destined heir to the Secret Scroll because of the prophecy."
"What prophecy?" Catty hated the tremor that had crept into her voice.
"Only the child of a fallen goddess and an evil spirit will inherit the Scroll, Zoe recited.
Catty's heart sunk. Her mother was a Follower, her father an evil member of the Inner Circle. She suddenly felt damned. How could she overcome such a birthright?
Zoe took Catty's hand. "You must never worry that you are evil because of your heritage. The manuscript can only be given to someone with a pure heart and the strength to fight the Atrox.”
― Lynne Ewing, The Secret Scroll

“Sally!" My parents' stitched faces beam at us as they throw their downy arms around me. They both wear silk pajamas with midnight-blue robes that surround me like cottony clouds. My heart leaps like a baby lamb. Their candle-wax smell grips me in a familiar embrace, and I feel like a daydreamy little girl again.”
― Megan Shepherd, Hour of the Pumpkin Queen