Everything You Ever Wanted Quotes

“A portion of my consciousness is always reserved for documenting. It's a blessing and a curse.”
― Jillian Lauren, Everything You Ever Wanted: A Memoir

“if you truly knew all that people had been through, you would get down on your knees and kiss the feet of every person you came across.”
― Jillian Lauren, Everything You Ever Wanted: A Memoir

“He’s yours. He’s your baby. Just hang in there. You’ll be home with him soon enough.”
― Jillian Lauren, Everything You Ever Wanted: A Memoir

“he has wet through his diaper is because he doesn’t have one on. There are no more left.”
― Jillian Lauren, Everything You Ever Wanted: A Memoir

“Here we are, watching these families be born. It’s breathtaking.”
― Jillian Lauren, Everything You Ever Wanted: A Memoir

“Change is hard for anyone but for a drug addict it’s nearly impossible.”
― Jillian Lauren, Everything You Ever Wanted: A Memoir

“On paper, I do not appear to be mother material at all. But the paper doesn’t represent what’s in our hearts or our lives.”
― Jillian Lauren, Everything You Ever Wanted: A Memoir

“Adoption is complicated, but also rich with narratives of strength.”
― Jillian Lauren, Everything You Ever Wanted: A Memoir

“everybody telling us that if we’d just relax already, we’d get pregnant.”
― Jillian Lauren, Everything You Ever Wanted: A Memoir

“Please, I pray. Please. Make me a mother.”
― Jillian Lauren, Everything You Ever Wanted: A Memoir

“I spoke to God all the time as a child, and even though I lapsed into silence for a while, when I picked it up again under my drug dealer’s bed, I fell easily back into the habit.”
― Jillian Lauren, Everything You Ever Wanted: A Memoir

“I don’t believe in being broken beyond repair. I believe in second chances.”
― Jillian Lauren, Everything You Ever Wanted: A Memoir

“I’m not good enough to take care of someone. That girls like me don’t deserve families.”
― Jillian Lauren, Everything You Ever Wanted: A Memoir

“my greatest fears that my hurt will become Tariku’s, in spite of my best efforts to give him a whole new world.”
― Jillian Lauren, Everything You Ever Wanted: A Memoir

“I usually like to say that you get as many do-overs as you need, but that’s not true. You don’t really get any, do you? Not strictly. You can build a new city, but you’re always contending with the ruins of the old one. They don’t just go away.”
― Jillian Lauren, Everything You Ever Wanted: A Memoir

“To be so unwanted and so wanted at the same time can carve a fault line in you.”
― Jillian Lauren, Everything You Ever Wanted: A Memoir