Bethany
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Love is a hungry thing. If you don’t feed it, it withers and dies. Ours died.’
“Evangelicalism has taken the Extrovert Ideal to its logical extreme...If you don't love Jesus out loud, then it must not be real love. It's not enough to forge your own spiritual connection to the divine; it must be displayed publicly.”
― Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
― Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
“Even though you weren't born to us, you grew in our hearts. We will be forever connected because love is what makes a family.”
― From Pain to Parenthood: A Journey Through Miscarriage to Adoption
― From Pain to Parenthood: A Journey Through Miscarriage to Adoption
“The same person who would never raise his hand in a lecture hall of two hundred people might blog to two thousand, or two million, without thinking twice. The same person who finds it difficult to introduce himself to strangers might establish a persence online and then extend these relationships into the real world.”
― Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
― Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
“Adoption is grief in reverse.”
― The Eye of Adoption: The True Story of My Turbulent Wait for a Baby
― The Eye of Adoption: The True Story of My Turbulent Wait for a Baby
“The last introvert in a world of extroverts. Silence: my response to both emptiness and saturation. But silence frightens people. I had to learn how to talk. Out of politeness.”
― Atlas of the Human Heart
― Atlas of the Human Heart
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