Cara Fuller Engelbrecht

“believe God can do tremendous things through you—once you stop trying to wield all the power yourself.”
― Katherine Reay, The Printed Letter Bookshop

“The scan of the child who had been through trauma looked like Swiss cheese. Almost all of their brain activity occurs in the “fight-flight-or-freeze” part of the brain, with little activity in the cerebral cortex — the part of the brain that allows us to think and process rationally.”
― Jennie Lynn Owens, Dancing with a Porcupine: Parenting wounded children without losing your self

“People who don’t recognize race as a reality shouldn’t adopt black children. They are going to do more damage to the child than good! We don’t live in a color-blind society. We don’t live in a melting pot. Race is our reality. It defines our interaction. It needs to be accepted.”
― Rita J. Simon, In Their Own Voices: Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories

“But what between the poor men I won’t have, and the rich men who won’t have me, I stand as a pelican in the wilderness!”
― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd