Patricia Gibney > Quotes

“Sometimes you were better off not knowing, rather than finding yourself literally in the dark.”
― Patricia Gibney, The Missing Ones

“spliff”
― Patricia Gibney, The Missing Ones

“her life choked away beneath the tightness, in a strange way she welcomed the physical pain over the anguished years of mental affliction. Descending darkness extinguished the flame on the candle as his hand jerked once, then twice, and her body slackened and all fear eased from her being. Within those last moments of torment she allowed the shadows to lead her to a place of light and comfort, to a peace she had never experienced with the living. Tiny”
― Patricia Gibney, The Missing Ones

“Ah, Mam. Don’t beat yourself up over it. You can only do so much. You’re only one person. You can’t do everything for everyone.”
― Patricia Gibney, The Lost Child

“She had to remember she had no control over how other people acted; she only had control over how she reacted”
― Patricia Gibney, Silent Voices

“subterfuge.”
― Patricia Gibney, Hidden Daughters

“you doing down there?’ She picked”
― Patricia Gibney, Buried Angels

“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

“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

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

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

“I heard the scream and rushed out to see”
― Patricia Gibney, The Missing Ones

“gardaí”
― Patricia Gibney, The Missing Ones

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

“Thirty-four,”
― Patricia Gibney, The Missing Ones

“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

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

“to fetch it.”
― Patricia Gibney, Broken Souls

“that school over the years,’ he said, pointing”
― Patricia Gibney, The Missing Ones

“Someone must think I've nothing to do, they keep supplying me with bodies.”
― Patricia Gibney, The Missing Ones

“Her team were good.”
― Patricia Gibney, The Missing Ones

“wanted”
― Patricia Gibney, The Missing Ones

“But Lottie knew Chloe had run head-first into the arms of death rather than away from it.”
― Patricia Gibney, The Stolen Girls

“Exhaling her held breath, Lottie walked around the bed as SOCOs moved out of her way. She felt her head contract and a fuzzy feeling prickled behind her eyes. The atmosphere was brimming with a malignant presence. If she believed in the devil, she was sure he had visited this young woman”
― Patricia Gibney, Silent Voices

“I don’t like being reminded of things I don’t remember doing while in a state of unremembrance.”
― Patricia Gibney, The Missing Ones

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

“into”
― Patricia Gibney, The Missing Ones

“Garda O’Donoghue was writing down whatever the paramedic”
― Patricia Gibney, The Missing Ones

“away, but her energy was spent and she knew it was now her time. Tears threatened at the corners of her eyes and his hand closed around her throat, gloved fingers tracking a line up and down her loose flesh. Her hands flew up to grab at his but he swatted her away. His fingers found the iPod cable and she felt him twisting it, curling it about her neck. She smelled his sour aftershave and she became totally aware then that she would die without”
― Patricia Gibney, The Missing Ones

“them”
― Patricia Gibney, The Missing Ones