Demons Fought Quote by Christina McKenna

“[Lydia tut-tutted on seeing the grocer's apostrophe]”

— Christina McKenna

“If there was one great benefit to the whole practice of art, it was to focus him in the “now,” where the ugly past…

— Christina McKenna

“She was a dedicated churchgoer, devoted do-gooder, and throbbing artery of village gossip. She sharpened her tongue on the loose lives of others and…

— Christina McKenna

“leaving a chink through which Rose could reach to help build for Jamie a whole, hitherto unimagined future. Chapter four “The doctor will see…

— Christina McKenna

“Those institutions—the so-called “industrial schools,” orphanages and “Magdalene” laundries—were run by certain religious orders in Ireland for the better part of a century, and…

— Christina McKenna

“The fitting room was small and Jamie felt like an elephant in a shoebox.”

— Christina McKenna

“Perhaps, she mused, we never really stop being the children we once were.”

— Christina McKenna

“He would scrub the floors on his hands and knees, beat the rugs, wash the windows and pound the bed linen in the tin…

— Christina McKenna

“How interesting, she mused, that we pick up and repeat the qualities of those closest to us, like walking reflections, whether they be good…

— Christina McKenna

“Gladys. Places, of themselves, were rarely at fault, but rather the people who inhabited them.”

— Christina McKenna

“It took him longer than usual. Every sound—the clanking of the mug as he retrieved it from the crammed sink, the gushing and spitting…

— Christina McKenna

“they understood that to be bound by another’s needs and wishes was perhaps, in essence, a far more fearful state than being on one’s…

— Christina McKenna