Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other Quotes

“Race, blood, lineage, and nationality don't matter; they're just the way that small minds keep score. All that matters about blood is that it's warm and that it beats through a loving heart.”
― Scott Simon, Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other: In Praise of Adoption

“There are times when the adoption process is exhausting and painful and makes you want to scream. But, I am told, so does childbirth.”
― Scott Simon, Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other: In Praise of Adoption

“So: this is where we are going to become parents. You walk into the building as a couple, and leave a few minutes later as a family. You walk in recollecting long romantic dinners, nights at the theater, and care-free vacations. You leave worrying about where to get diapers, milk, and Cheerios.”
― Scott Simon, Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other: In Praise of Adoption

“It's not the cost (although that pinches), or the time (though that grinds). After a while, it's the sheer galling indignity of being asked to prove, pay, and prove all over again that you're a worthy parent. Any true parent will tell you that that is impossible to prove in advance.”
― Scott Simon, Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other: In Praise of Adoption

“They will grow up knowing that they should be only proud about being adopted. I will consider it a parental failure if our daughters ever try to use it as some kind of excuse.”
― Scott Simon, Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other: In Praise of Adoption

“Parenthood is shit, snot, slime, fear, tears, spit, and spills. It’s as intense as combat, which is to say hours of tedium relieved by moments of alarm and flashes of joy to remind you that you’re alive. It is intensely practical and profoundly square, even if you’re not. It’s feeding, wiping, and picking up.”
― Scott Simon, Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other: In Praise of Adoption

“Despite the reams of paperwork, obstacles worthy of a horse show, and a wait that can rival an elephant's gestation, adoption feels no different on the inside.”
― Scott Simon, Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other: In Praise of Adoption

“Fifteen-year-old girls produce children with sixteen-year-old boys in the backseat of cars and in the stairwells of apartment buildings. Why can't two loving adults who have contemplated parenthood and are prepared to offer love, patience, and devotion come up with enough chromosomal matter to stick together and create a child?”
― Scott Simon, Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other: In Praise of Adoption

“And I don't even have to include Joseph adoption Jesus to make that point, though it is irresistible to add that Joseph and Mary had to go through a lot fewer interviews than my wife and I did. Well, maybe one major one.”
― Scott Simon, Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other: In Praise of Adoption

“Adoption is rewarding. But the process, as we have already detailed in some particulars, can be expensive, exhausting, and hard to sustain on a dream, much less a whim.”
― Scott Simon, Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other: In Praise of Adoption

“Camille died a few days later. Our daughter's hearts bear the first real cracks they have had to endure since we came into each other's lives. Our girls had a lot of laughs to give Camille in the years ahead; she had a lot of love for them. But I think that some lives are like diamonds. They pack a lot of light and brilliance into a small space.”
― Scott Simon, Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other: In Praise of Adoption