Hidden Daughters Quotes

“An insignificant human being met with the force of nature. Threatening, but simultaneously soothing.”
― Patricia Gibney, Hidden Daughters

“It usually brought him peace from the demons haunting his soul.”
― Patricia Gibney, Hidden Daughters

“He wished it was dark so that he could get in his car and drive to the ocean. He loved doing that at least once a week in the dead of night. No one knew about it. At least he didn’t think anyone did. It was his escape, for himself, by himself. Just to listen to the sound of waves thundering against the rocks was a balm to his soul.”
― Patricia Gibney, Hidden Daughters

“subterfuge.”
― Patricia Gibney, Hidden Daughters

“Gimmicks, Mooney believed, could not make up for shallowness.”
― Patricia Gibney, Hidden Daughters

“She knew from experience that the past rarely remained secret.”
― Patricia Gibney, Hidden Daughters

“Lies were not easy to forgive. And once secrets were out of the box, they could never be locked back in.”
― Patricia Gibney, Hidden Daughters

“Worse fates befell children in those places. No, I was lucky, but my mother wasn’t. They called her names. Those upright religious bigots said she was a whore and a sinner. No mention of the man who got her pregnant. Was he absolved of his sin? The sin of impregnating a teenager? What about the sin of her parents for abandoning her in her hour of need?”
― Patricia Gibney, Hidden Daughters

“mo ghrá.”
― Patricia Gibney, Hidden Daughters

“Hope kept you going. Hope kept you alive. But sometimes hope destroyed you.”
― Patricia Gibney, Hidden Daughters

“Society had given its blessing by its silence.”
― Patricia Gibney, Hidden Daughters

“hide what the Church called a sin. Society had given its blessing by its silence.”
― Patricia Gibney, Hidden Daughters

“but something from the novels of Dickens. Newgate or Dartmoor. Or the old Irish prisons like Spike Island.”
― Patricia Gibney, Hidden Daughters

“betimes,”
― Patricia Gibney, Hidden Daughters

“Go raibh míle maith agat. Thank you.”
― Patricia Gibney, Hidden Daughters

“there’s been a commission of investigation into the industrial schools and the laundries.”
― Patricia Gibney, Hidden Daughters

“People talk about the laundries in Dublin and Cork, but this one was in Galway.”
― Patricia Gibney, Hidden Daughters

“The sound of the waves calmed her brain and”
― Patricia Gibney, Hidden Daughters

“He has this weird smile that kind of says he knows something you don’t. Do you get me?’ ‘Like he’s hiding a secret?’ Martina leaned forward. She’d noticed that too.”
― Patricia Gibney, Hidden Daughters