{"quotes":[{"text":"While our life remains more chaotic than not, we continue to land on our blistered feet, drag each other out of the quicksand, beg for forgiveness as we wander out of the doghouse, and dig for the humor beneath our grief. So our family, four-pawed members included, continues to bound forward celebrating our canine connection and sharing hope with all who need healing.","author":"Donnie Kanter Winokur","tags":["adoption","disability","inspirational","parenting","service-dogs"],"id":7531,"author_id":"Donnie+Kanter+Winokur"},{"text":"If you don’t have your own identity, you will adopt the brand of another.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["adoption","brand","identity","image","personality","true-identity"],"id":12515,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"If every Christian family in the United States would simply commit to pray and ask God if HE wants to use them to bless a child without a family, well, we'd change the world. If we can get the church to think about adoption not in terms of the desires of adults but in terms of the needs of children, I think we'd see on a much grander scale how God sets the lonely in families.","author":"Kelly Rosati","tags":["adoption","church","orphans"],"id":20243,"author_id":"Kelly+Rosati"},{"text":"That so many thousands of children around the world are available for adoption is a sign of our impoverished humanity. That so many persons around the world open their hearts and homes each year to embrace a few of these children is a lasting testimony to humanity's enduring nobility.","author":"Deborah A. Beasley","tags":["adoption","deborah-beasley","family-relationships","foster-care","parenting","psycology"],"id":25574,"author_id":"Deborah+A.+Beasley"},{"text":"She wasn't tracking down her father to learn more about him. She was tracking him down to learn more about herself.","author":"Brad Meltzer","tags":["adoption","parents","self-awareness","self-discovery"],"id":25608,"author_id":"Brad+Meltzer"},{"text":"If we adopted Jack,' I quip, 'we'd have to give him combat pay for an allowance.","author":"Daven Anderson","tags":["adoption","family","humor","vampire"],"id":26519,"author_id":"Daven+Anderson"},{"text":"This is overdue. Quite a bit, I'm afraid. I apologize. We moved to Topeka when I was very small, and Mother accidentally packed it up with the linens. I have traveled a long way to return it, and I know the fine must be large, but I have no money. As it is a book of fairy tales, I thought payment of a first-born child would be acceptable. I always loved the library. I'm sure she'll be happy there.","author":"Ellen Klages","tags":["adoption","babies-in-baskets","books","fairy-tales","librarians","libraries","overdue","overdue-books"],"id":27004,"author_id":"Ellen+Klages"},{"text":"If the system were designed to protect adoptees, why do so many have to fight for their rights?","author":"DaShanne Stokes","tags":["adopt","adopted","adopted-kids","adoptee","adoptee-rights","adoptees","adopting","adopting-a-child","adoption","adoption-and-attitude","adoption-day","adoption-industry","adoption-reunions","adoption-search","adoption-story","adoption-system","civil-rights","national-adoption-day","national-adoption-month","original-birth-certificate","rights"],"id":38407,"author_id":"DaShanne+Stokes"},{"text":"Discovering that I was adopted redefined my entire world, but it taught me that who you are doesn't change.","author":"DaShanne Stokes","tags":["adopt","adoptee","adoptees","adoption","adoption-and-attitude","adoption-day","adoption-month","adoption-search","adoption-story","change","change","discover","discover-yourself","discoveries","discovery","discovery-of-oneself","identity","identity-confusion","identity-crisis","identity-politics","identity","national-adoption-day","national-adoption-month","who-we-are"],"id":41086,"author_id":"DaShanne+Stokes"},{"text":"Adoption is a beautiful, burdensome blessing.","author":"Jody Cantrell Dyer","tags":["adoption","adoption-and-attitude","adoption-infertility","amazon","birth-father","birth-mother","birth-parents","domestic-infant","expense","expensive","family","grief-inspirational-bereavement","infertility","kindle","miscarriage","newborn-adoption","open-adoption","open-mind","openness","paperwork","parenting","the-eye-of-adoption"],"id":46249,"author_id":"Jody+Cantrell+Dyer"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":95,"pages":10,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}