Christina Baker Kline Quotes

I've played a worrying number of orphans, children who have been abandoned or had something terrible happen to them.

When you are abandoned by two parents as a baby - wow, that is something to live with.

Appalling things can happen to children. And even a happy childhood is filled with sadnesses.

I was an abused kid.

Not everyone can be an orphan.

When I was young, my brother David and I were farmed off to foster homes, and I spent time in orphanages. My father abandoned us. Here's the most important person in my life, and I never met him.

My father's life was so decimated by his earliest experiences. His mother died when he was 7 years old, which he always said was the worst experience in his life. When he was 8, his father disappeared and he was on his own from the age of 8.

I want to set up orphanages for underprivileged and abused children.

I've always been concerned with what happens to children in our society when there's nobody left to take care of them.

My mother left me for seven years in an orphanage.

The most violent and troubling stories become part of our national consciousness about foster care.

I was raised an orphan... My mother died when I was 2 years old.

Many feel sorry for a person like David Platt. He was abandoned by his father, his mother wanted to abort him and his stepdad wanted him dead.

I tried to put myself up for adoption several times.

When I was in the group homes, I saw some of the kids being moved into foster homes with the potential for adoption. I remember well asking a social worker if I could find a home, too. I was told I was 'too old' and 'no one wants to adopt a 16-year-old.' I felt hopeless and alone.

To lose your last remaining parent is the toughest thing. It is a very lonely thing.

People ask about love. Real love. I was never in love; the people around me didn't love me. They were just along for the ride.

There are far too many children in America in need of a loving home who are shuttled between temporary homes and group shelters that fail to provide the stable, nurturing environment all children deserve.

It was only for two years, and I jumped from family to family. It's very scary.

Orphans Preferred

I was worried if you adopted a foster child, someone from the birth family could still come and take her back. I was afraid that any child in foster care might have suffered such trauma or neglect that she would be impossible to reach. I'm not proud of these fears. But I understand now when others ask me the same questions.

I didn't have the best relationship with my dad. I was bullied in school, picked on. I remember the first time of just trying to connect with girls. It was just rejection after rejection. So I always felt ugly.

I actually was brought up by an Airedale. I don't really remember my parents, especially my mother. It was only the dog that I saw.

I guess more than anything, I just realized, okay, one day I had a home to live in and my family around me. The next day, I did not.

I was in a terrible mess in my childhood.