Separation Of Families Quotes

“The benevolent gentleman is sorry; but, then, the thing happens every day! One sees girls and mothers crying at these sales, always! it can't be helped, etc.; and he walks off, with his acquisition, in another direction.”
― Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin

“I've never felt the need to find out who I am, where I come from, or why I was abandoned. I know who I am, where I come from; most of all I know that I wasn't abandoned. Kidnapping might be too strong a word to use for how our adoption transpired, but sometimes that's what it felt like.”
― Christina Rickardsson, Sluta aldrig gå - Från gatan i Sao Paulo till Vindeln i Norrland

“The port teemed with children. Helen had been rushing, the will carefully tucked in the crook of her arm, when she turned the corner and the sight of their little faces stopped her in her tracks. They were a ragged little crowd, their hair in disarray from the night spent sleeping on their siblings’ shoulders, but Helen thought they were beautiful. Notes pinned to their coats declared their names, and every hand held something, whether an adult-sized suitcase or the grip of a sibling. It was the brothers and sisters who broke Helen’s heart the most. For all the bickering they likely once did, they now clung to each other as a soul does to a body. Don’t separate us, their small faces begged, necks craned to look up at the clusters of adults watching them. Wherever we must go, just let it be together.”
― Corinne Beenfield, The Ocean's Daughter :

“Physical absence does not always mean emotional absence, many times more physical absence means more emotional presence.”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

“If you write to us," Luka had said with tears in his eyes, "don't ever sign your name or send an address.”
― Courtney Angela Brkic, The First Rule of Swimming

“You should be grateful. You come out of this unscathed while I am all the more battered for it”
― C.A. Night, Radiant