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It Takes More Than Love: A Christian Guide to Navigating the Complexities of Cross-Cultural Adoption
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From an adoptive parent standpoint, we gain a lot. But it needs to be said clearly that adoptees and birth families lose much during this process.
“The next Crusades will be not religious but consumerist,”
― Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism—Understanding the Social Science of Cult Influence
― Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism—Understanding the Social Science of Cult Influence
“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”
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“We felt the imprisonment of being a girl, the way it made your mind active and dreamy, and how you ended up knowing which colors went together. We knew that the girls were our twins, that we all existed in space like animals with identical skins, and that they knew everything about us though we couldn’t fathom them at all. We knew, finally, that the girls were really women in disguise, that they understood love and even death, and that our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them.”
― The Virgin Suicides
― The Virgin Suicides
“(We did not run. If we ran then we would have to admit there was something to run from. If we ran, then the small child that lives in every soldier’s heart knew that the monsters could get us.”
― What Moves the Dead
― What Moves the Dead
“Being smart is the worst thing one can be in modern society. All it ever means is more work.”
― The Answer Is No
― The Answer Is No
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