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adoption Quotes

10 of the best book quotes about adoption
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“It was more appropriate to give her a new name to celebrate the start of her new life.”
Celeste Ng
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Little Fires Everywhere
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Linda McCulloughs
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“Salva stood still inside the terminal doors for a few moments. Leaving the airport felt like leaving his old life forever-Sudan, his village, his family.”
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“Tears came to his eyes, perhaps from the cold air blowing in through the open doors. His new family was already outside; they turned and looked back at him. Salva blinked away the tears and took his first step into a new life in America.”
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“There was ... a dreamy feeling that this child was somehow a message come to him from that far-off life.”
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“Sirs, if you mean to take only one of us, it should be Frankie. He’s one of the youngest here. Mrs Pennyweather plans to put me out to hire soon. I’m not old enough, but I guess I’m big enough. It’s why she’s not too keen on me leaving. But if I’m out working for months at a time. I won’t be able to look out for Frankie. And he’s still little.”
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″ Were they mine enemies, the worst imprecation I could devise would be, may they adopt it. For tyranny, where it has been chained (as for a few years past) is always more cursed, and sticks its teeth in deeper than before.”
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“So fearful are its patrons that you should discern the imposition, that they have hurried on its adoption, with the greatest precipitation.”
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“And suddenly all the puppies were her puppies; she was their mother—just as Pongo had felt he was their father.”
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“I’ve always longed for a younger sister, so I’m going to adopt you, Philippa dear, and try to believe that you’re really and truly mine.”
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“He takes Rasmus to his home, where Oscar’s wife is already waiting for Oscar. The couple decides to adopt Rasmus as their child.”

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