Magdalen Rising Quotes

“In your time, politicians win points in the polls for proposing to punish unmarried teenaged mothers like me, not to mention our children.”
― Elizabeth Cunningham, Magdalen Rising: The Beginning

“Summer was letting out one long, last, sweet breath before winter began to blast.”
― Elizabeth Cunningham, Magdalen Rising: The Beginning

“…these mothers at their midnight council were more like one great mind probing itself, divided at times as great minds may be, but one entity”
― Elizabeth Cunningham, Magdalen Rising: The Beginning

“I've outgrown my childhood name, and I haven't found a new one yet."
"Ah," she cried. "Then it will be my pleasure to name you for myself. I can tell you are a colleen after my own heart, more like to me than my own daughter Findbhair. So I bestow on you the brave name of Maeve until such a time as another name shall claim you.”
― Elizabeth Cunningham, Magdalen Rising: The Beginning