Quotes from Joy Jordan-Lake

No coffee worth drinking requires cream.

life worth living is one of compassion. And a life of compassion will include many tears.

That's how adoption works, Kate—a child gets born in your heart, and every ounce of your bone and your flesh and your soul become part of that child from then on.

And I'd tell you that changes nothing about how we should treat him if he came to us for help. We welcome the stranger. That's what we do.

Because it wasn't just the death of a sweet little beast we were marking—it was the death of what we thought we'd been doing, where we'd thought we were living, the death of being able to believe anymore in our innocence and the existence of goodness around us.