Before and After Quotes

“The history we deny is the history we are most likely to repeat.”
― Judy Christie, Before and After

“For all the pain of the circumstances of their adoptions, they have processed enough about their backgrounds to know that if they had not been adopted, they would most likely have lived with other kinds of heartache.”
― Judy Christie, Before and After: The Incredible Real-Life Stories of Orphans Who Survived the Tennessee Children's Home Society

“Regardless of being rejected by people, I’ve been accepted by God…That helps make up for a lot of things in my life.”
― Judy Christie, Before and After: The Incredible Real-Life Stories of Orphans Who Survived the Tennessee Children's Home Society

“someone out there will choose to become that one person for one person. Change a life. Save a life. Tell a story that would have otherwise been lost.”
― Judy Christie, Before and After: The Incredible Real-Life Stories of Orphans Who Survived the Tennessee Children's Home Society

“The realities of what happened at TCHS are hard to contemplate, but they are necessary to revisit. The history we deny is the history we are most likely to repeat.”
― Judy Christie, Before and After: The Incredible Real-Life Stories of Orphans Who Survived the Tennessee Children's Home Society

“have no way of changing the past. Anger and resentments can hold us captive there, bring us back again and again. Forgiveness frees us to move forward, into the now, into new possibilities, into the future.”
― Judy Christie, Before and After: The Incredible Real-Life Stories of Orphans Who Survived the Tennessee Children's Home Society

“Each of us creates our own life story, the one we tell ourselves and others. Or choose not to tell.”
― Judy Christie, Before and After: The Incredible Real-Life Stories of Orphans Who Survived the Tennessee Children's Home Society

“Never hesitate. Do the right thing. Now, that’s a lesson to take with us.”
― Judy Christie, Before and After: The Incredible Real-Life Stories of Orphans Who Survived the Tennessee Children's Home Society

“Gave me the gift of time—the rarest and most precious commodity”
― Judy Christie, Before and After: The Incredible Real-Life Stories of Orphans Who Survived the Tennessee Children's Home Society

“With an abundance of tears and tissues, Patricia goes well beyond an aha moment. The weekend is a breakthrough. “Being adopted does affect you,” she realizes. She lingers on the thought now. “Mother loss…it’s big-time stuff.”
― Judy Christie, Before and After: The Incredible Real-Life Stories of Orphans Who Survived the Tennessee Children's Home Society

“The group leader speaks words to her that no one has before: “When you’re adopted, you come into the world with loss.”
― Judy Christie, Before and After: The Incredible Real-Life Stories of Orphans Who Survived the Tennessee Children's Home Society