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  • #1
    John Elder Robison
    “And now I know it is perfectly natural for me not to look at someone when I talk. Those of us with Asperger's are just not comfortable doing it. In fact, I don'treally understand why it's considered normal to stare at someone's eyeballs.”
    John Elder Robison

  • #2
    J. Morgan
    “Life is a test of your sanity, and believe me you never make it out without going a little crazy along the way.”
    J. Morgan

  • #3
    Justin Cronin
    “Real courage is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. Doing the unpopular thing because it's what you believe, and the heck with everybody.”
    Justin Cronin, The Summer Guest

  • #4
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #5
    Katharine Lee Bates
    “O beautiful for spacious skies
    for amber waves of grain”
    Katharine Lee Bates

  • #6
    “It is better, I think, to grab at the stars than to sit flustered because you know you cannot reach them.”
    R.A. Salvatore, Sojourn

  • #7
    Shubham Choudhary
    “How is your book doing?" or "How many copies have you sold?" are the questions for a salesman. To a writer, you better ask "What did you write today?".”
    Shubham Choudhary

  • #8
    Leo Tolstoy
    “it's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.”
    Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

  • #9
    “Strong people don't put others down... They lift them up.”
    Michael P. Watson

  • #10
    Brian Tracy
    “Positive expectations are the mark of the superior personality.”
    Brian Tracy, Maximum Achievement: Strategies and Skills That Will Unlock Your Hidden Powers to Succeed

  • #11
    Asa Don Brown
    “Attachment. A secure attachment is the ability to bond; to develop a secure and safe base; an unbreakable or perceivable inability to shatter to bond between primary parental caregiver(s) and child; a quest for familiarity; an unspoken language and knowledge that a caregiver will be a permanent fixture.”
    Asa Don Brown, The Effects of Childhood Trauma on Adult Perception and Worldview

  • #12
    Asa Don Brown
    “Children are barometers of the chaos that exists within their lives.”
    Asa Don Brown

  • #13
    Christina Baker Kline
    “I've come to think that's what heaven is- a place in the memory of others where our best selves live on.”
    Christina Baker Kline, Orphan Train

  • #14
    Christina Baker Kline
    “So is it just human nature to believe that things happen for a reason - to find some shred of meaning even in the worst experiences?”
    Christina Baker Kline, Orphan Train

  • #15
    Christina Baker Kline
    “It's human nature to want to think the best of others, but if you listen carefully, people will always tell you who they are. ”
    Christina Baker Kline, Bird in Hand

  • #16
    Abbi Glines
    “Unconditional love is hard to compete with.”
    Abbi Glines, Because of Low

  • #17
    Margaret Mead
    “Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.”
    Margaret Mead

  • #18
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.”
    Robert A. Heinlein

  • #19
    Fred Rogers
    “Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me.”
    Fred Rogers

  • #20
    Garrison Keillor
    “Nothing you do for children is ever wasted.”
    Garrison Keillor, Leaving Home

  • #21
    Bill Ayers
    “Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.”
    Bill Ayers

  • #22
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “The truth is you can be orphaned again and again and again. The truth is, you will be. And the secret is, this will hurt less and less each time until you can't feel a thing. Trust me on this.”
    Chuck Palahniuk

  • #23
    Hilary Thayer Hamann
    “When you lose your parents as a child, you are indoctrinated into a club, you re taken into life's severest confidence. You are undeceived.”
    Hilary Thayer Hamann, Anthropology of an American Girl

  • #24
    Adam  Johnson
    “Orphans are the only ones who get to choose their fathers, and they love them twice as much.”
    Adam Johnson, The Orphan Master's Son

  • #25
    “…there is no other logical explanation for how things ultimately worked out except by God’s hand.”
    Kim De Blecourt, Until We All Come Home: A Harrowing Journey, a Mother's Courage, a Race to Freedom

  • #26
    “Fear gripped me as my children and I arrived at the Ukraine-Moldova border crossing.”
    Kim De Blecourt, Until We All Come Home: A Harrowing Journey, a Mother's Courage, a Race to Freedom

  • #27
    “When other girls were dreaming about love, she dreamt of love too, but in an entirely different context - the ones they took for granted.”
    Donna Lynn Hope

  • #28
    Sherrilyn Kenyon
    “Life isn't finding shelter in the storm. It's about learning to dance in the rain.”
    Sherrilyn Kenyon, Acheron

  • #29
    Sherrilyn Kenyon
    “It's easy to look at people and make quick judgments about them, their present and their past, but you'd be amazed at the pain and tears a single smile hides. What a person shows to the world is only one tiny facet of the iceberg hidden from sight. And more often then not, it's lined with cracks and scars that go all the way to the foundation of their soul.”
    Sherrilyn Kenyon, Acheron

  • #30
    Christina Baker Kline
    “Mrs. Scatcherd raps Dutchy's knuckles several times with a long wooden ruler, though it seems to me a halfhearted penalty. He barely winces, then shakes his hands twice in the air and winks at me. Truly , there isn't much more she can do. Stripped of family and identity, fed meager rations, consigned to hard wooden seats until we are to be, as Slobbery Jack suggested, sold into slavery — our mere existence is punishment enough.”
    Christina Baker Kline, Orphan Train



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