"Anyone who ever wondered how much they could love a child who did not spring from their own loins knows this: it is the same. The feeling of love is so profound, it’s incredible and surprising."

- Nia Vardalos

"If the standard route for creating a family had worked for me, I wouldn’t have met this child. I needed to know her. I needed to be her mother. She is, in every way my daughter."

- Nia Vardalos

"There’s a feeling sometimes in motherhood that you’re alone in what you’re going through, and none of us are alone. We’re all going through the same thing."

- Nia Vardalos

"There's a feeling sometimes in motherhood that you're alone in what you're going through, and none of us are alone. We're all going through the same thing."

- Nia Vardalos

"My New Year’s Resolution List usually starts with the desire to lose between ten and three thousand pounds."

- Nia Vardalos