The Lost Child of Philomena Lee Quotes

“Death changes things. It changes how we think about people; it changes the living and it changes the dead.”
― Martin Sixsmith, Philomena: A Mother, Her Son and A Fifty-Year Search

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― Martin Sixsmith, Philomena: A Mother, Her Son and A Fifty-Year Search

“The orphan is always looking for acceptance but always expecting rejection.”
― Martin Sixsmith, Philomena

“I think if you love someone long enough and hard enough you can always get through to them. And there's nothing stronger than a mother's love. You hear so many stories mothers and children communicating -- mothers who can hear their children cry even when they're miles apart. I'd say you've got to go over there and find out if she's looking for you. Think of how desperate she must be.”
― Martin Sixsmith, The Lost Child of Philomena Lee: A Mother, Her Son and A Fifty-Year Search

“It all goes back to our earliest experiences and the way they shape the rest of our lives. Did you know babies can pick out their mother's face minutes after they're born? Forty weeks in utero means they're already pretty bonded, so being abandoned is a big thing. Even though your kids were given away the minute they are born, they're still going to remember it at some level, and it's still going to be devastating for them.”
― Martin Sixsmith, The Lost Child of Philomena Lee: A Mother, Her Son and A Fifty-Year Search

“It's not for you girls to say what happens to the children. They no more belong to you than the sun or the moon. Your job is to feed them and work your three years. Then we'll find them proper mothers who deserve to have children.”
― Martin Sixsmith, The Lost Child of Philomena Lee: A Mother, Her Son and A Fifty-Year Search

“After the initial lying-in period, babies were taken away to the children's nursery. But from shared flesh and nine months intimacy there stems a mother-child intuition, and whenever Anthony cried in the night nursery, Philomena, on the other side of the convent, woke.”
― Martin Sixsmith, The Lost Child of Philomena Lee: A Mother, Her Son and A Fifty-Year Search

“the long high ceilings of the children’s dormitory”
― Martin Sixsmith, Philomena: A Mother, Her Son and A Fifty-Year Search

“voice:”
― Martin Sixsmith, Philomena: A Mother, Her Son and A Fifty-Year Search