Molly Aitken > Quotes

“You never know the reasons behind why a person behaves a certain way. Even if they hurt someone else or do something you can’t understand, then they will have had a reason. You don’t have to forgive them but you may feel lighter in yourself if you do. But sometimes it is too much to forgive.”
― Molly Aitken, The Island Child

“a mother can never be what her child wants, she can only try to be what her child needs,”
― Molly Aitken, The Island Child

“Once I was hit by lightning and caught fire. My skin still wears the white scars like branches. I am a rare case. Once brightly I burned, I drew them all to me and consumed them all, unwittingly and wittingly, in my fire.”
― Molly Aitken, Bright I Burn

“The Franciscan has turned the city of my birth against me. He wants to feast on my shame, but I won't let him. He will merely hear me thunder and remember me with rage. In the weeks to come, he will look up, and the rim of the sky will be crimson, and he will wish I hadn't lit him on fire.”
― Molly Aitken, Bright I Burn