Instant Mom Quotes

“Anyone who ever wondered how much they could love a child who did not spring from their own loins, know this: it is the same. The feeling of love is so profound, it's incredible and surprising.”
― Nia Vardalos, Instant Mom

“I hold my daughter in my arms and thank God for bringing her to me. If the standard route for creating a family had worked for me, I wouldn't have met this child. I needed to know her. I needed to be her mother. I know now why all those events happened. Or didn't happen. So I could meet this little girl. She is, in every way, my daughter. I am carrying my Funny Gift from God and all is good.”
― Nia Vardalos, Instant Mom

“Because now I know what I have been waiting for. I know exactly why the other processes didn't work. I know I was supposed to wait for this little girl.”
― Nia Vardalos, Instant Mom

“I am so touched at how my family has embraced my situation. They don't even know this child, and they already love her.”
― Nia Vardalos, Instant Mom

“There’s no way around grief. You have to go through it. You have to cry it out of your body, then wade through your own tears to the other side. Where there is cake. Moist cake. Have a piece. It will make you feel better. Have a second piece. Lick your fingers. You will feel better. I promise.”
― Nia Vardalos, Instant Mom

“I hold my daughter in my arms and thank God for bringing her to me. If the standard route of creating a family had worked for me, I wouldn’t have met this child. I needed to know her. I needed to be her mother. I know now why all those events happened. Or didn’t happen. So I could meet this little girl. She is, in every way, my daughter. I am carrying my Funny Gift from God and all is good.”
― Nia Vardalos, Instant Mom

“Time can turn a scab into a beauty mark.”
― Nia Vardalos, Instant Mom

“A bonus in raising a child you don't have a biological tie to is you will never saddle them with watching their every move and declaring their musical talent as "that's from your dad's side".”
― Nia Vardalos, Instant Mom

“No, only certain beautiful women have this affliction. It’s called Beautiful Woman Syndrome. These BWS women, from the time they were young until recently, were the most beautiful woman in the room, so men listened to them. They somehow confused this result with being interesting. But now their men no longer listen to them. And they’re still talking. At me.”
― Nia Vardalos, Instant Mom

“I want to run like a girl. I want to be as unfettered and carefree as a young girl crisscrossing a field. I know now I never felt like a sophisticated adult because it just doesn't come naturally to me. Maybe it never will. Maybe I just never ripened. Maybe that's okay.”
― Nia Vardalos, Instant Mom

“A small social guideline: don't ask a woman if she is pregnant unless her water breaks on your flip-flops, a baby arm dangles out of her vagina, and she asks you to cut the cord. Then and only then may you ask if she is having a baby. Otherwise, shut up.”
― Nia Vardalos, Instant Mom

“I know now I never felt like a sophisticated adult because it just doesn’t come naturally to me. Maybe it never will. Maybe I just never ripened. Maybe that’s okay.”
― Nia Vardalos, Instant Mom

“Ilaria asks me why God didn’t give me a baby. This isn’t an uncomfortable question for me anymore. I tell her there was another plan for me; I was supposed to wait for her. I tell her it was hard to wait but she is worth it.”
― Nia Vardalos, Instant Mom

“I broke into an industry that had told me loud and clear I didn’t belong, and found success because I was tenacious, assertive, and obstinate.”
― Nia Vardalos, Instant Mom

“Sometimes if something scares me, I lean right into it . I’m not a brave person— I’m more of a fearless idiot.”
― Nia Vardalos, Instant Mom