The Stolen Child Quotes

“St. Brigid’s Island perched like a jagged accident above the water, all grass and rock, no beach to ease the passage of a boat, no harbor to shelter it once there. Twelve miles west of Ireland, at times nearly impossible to get to and just as deadly to try to leave. It was the whim of the wind and the swelling sea that determined who landed there and who was let go.”
― Lisa Carey, The Stolen Child

“Mothers' bodies are not their own. The happiest ones seem to have forgotten what it is like to want themselves back at all.”
― Lisa Carey, The Stolen Child