"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?"

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Source : "Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other: In Praise of Adoption". Book by Scott Simon, 2010.

Scott Simon

#Girl Quotes #Children Quotes #Boys Quotes

“I'm trying to be as green as I can. As an airline pilot, I have a carbon footprint that's a size 10, so it's pretty hard.”
“Growing up in the days when you still had to punch buttons to make a telephone call, I could recall the numbers of all my close friends and family. Today, I'm not sure if I know more than four phone numbers by heart. And that's probably more than most.”
“Nationalism is both a vital medicine and a dangerous drug”
“When I take photographs, my body inevitably enters a trancelike state. Briskly weaving my way through the avenues, every cell in my body becomes as sensitive as radar, responsive to the life of the streets... If I were to give it words, I would say: "I have no choice... I have to shoot this... I can't leave this place for another's eyes... I have to shoot it... I have no choice." An endless, murmuring refrain.”
“The dance of life finds its beginnings in grief......Here a completely new way of living is revealed. It is the way in which pain can be embraced, not out of a desire to suffer, but in the knowledge that something new will be born in the pain.”
“why will friends publish all the trash they can scrape together of celebrated people?”
“Sorrow is never more sorrowful than when it jests at its own misery.”
“Writing calls on unused muscles and involves solitude and immobility.”

Source : Dorothea Brande (2016). “Becoming a Writer”, p.30, Lulu.com

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