The Throwaway Children Quotes

“Thrown us away, more like. I haven’t even had this baby yet, but I know I could never, ever, part with him or her. Still, I suppose it’s all water under the bridge now and it’s no good going on hating you. David says hatred twists your soul. I think he’s right. So, I don’t hate you any more. From your daughter, Rita Harris”
― Diney Costeloe, Throwaway Children

“home will be run on strict principles, there’ll be no laxity,”
― Diney Costeloe, The Throwaway Children

“Rosie, the throwaway”
― Diney Costeloe, Throwaway Children

“from me again, but if you do, then I will write to you occasionally and tell you how your grandchild is doing. I also have to tell you poor Rosie is dead. She was adopted by some awful people when we first got here and they made her life hell. She ran away and when they were coming to find her she took sleeping pills rather than go back. She died because she came to Australia, because you didn’t want her. I’ll say this to you only once. I don’t know how you could possibly have given us away like you”
― Diney Costeloe, Throwaway Children

“Richard. Gran did write to me once, before she died, but though I wrote back to her I never heard from her again. I’m not really sure why I’m writing to you now, except that I’m going to have a baby in June, and I thought about you and thought you might like to know you are going to be a grandmother. Perhaps you are one already, but anyway, I thought you’d like to know. My husband, David, wasn’t very keen on me writing to you, but I felt I had to do it, just this once. If you don’t answer you’ll never hear”
― Diney Costeloe, Throwaway Children

“Dear Mum, I expect you’ll be surprised to hear from me after all these years. You didn’t want me and Rosie, well, not enough anyway, and maybe you don’t want to hear from me now. I expect you’ve got lots of other kids now, but I only know about”
― Diney Costeloe, Throwaway Children