Fall or Fly Quotes

“Like recognizing that every day brings a new piece of a big puzzle, that some relationships take longer than others, that nothing and nobody is perfect, that the only true and final failure is abdicating responsibility, that small successes should be celebrated on the way to the larger goal. Those are the baseline attri”
― Wendy Welch, Fall or Fly: The Strangely Hopeful Story of Foster Care and Adoption in Appalachia

“It’s a little frightening to realize that our deepest interactions and needs reduce to a phrase as simple as that ready-made Facebook relationship status, “It’s complicated.”
― Wendy Welch, Fall or Fly: The Strangely Hopeful Story of Foster Care and Adoption in Appalachia

“Coal isn’t king here; family is.”
― Wendy Welch, Fall or Fly: The Strangely Hopeful Story of Foster Care and Adoption in Appalachia

“If you’re from a place targeted by other people trying to tell you what you’re supposed to be and why you aren’t up to that benchmark, please hear this message: the problems within a community are not only solved by those who live in that community but also should be defined by that community. We who live with the problems know when something works and when it doesn’t and where priorities need to lie.”
― Wendy Welch, Fall or Fly: The Strangely Hopeful Story of Foster Care and Adoption in Appalachia

“God bless any woman trying to make life better for children she did not bear, and any man who did not biologically father the child he seeks to help.”
― Wendy Welch, Fall or Fly: The Strangely Hopeful Story of Foster Care and Adoption in Appalachia

“In Coalton, blaming the victim and suspecting those who came to help have both been elevated to art forms.”
― Wendy Welch, Fall or Fly: The Strangely Hopeful Story of Foster Care and Adoption in Appalachia

“what dedicated social workers couldn’t change for the better, they wouldn’t talk about”
― Wendy Welch, Fall or Fly: The Strangely Hopeful Story of Foster Care and Adoption in Appalachia