— Ah, but you don't want to abandon him the way you were abandoned. — Was I? — Like I said, an open book. — How would you know that? — I spent many years in Neverland, home of the lost boys. They all share the same look in their eyes... the look you get when you've been left alone. — Yeah, well, my world ain't Neverland. — But an orphan's an orphan. Once upon a time Season 2 Episode 6 Emma Swan Captain Hook / Killian Jones eyes Meaningful Quotes
— Whose report? — The testimony of children. — Who have they spoken to? — You'd have them only speak to God. — God be their witness. — There is God, and there are the Peaky Blinders. This is Sparkhill, we're in Small Heath. We are much, much closer at hand than God. — And we have heard terrible things. — We have, in this place, children of the worst sort. They lie as easily as breathe. — You had a child half black. You made her wash with a different soap. — Mr Shelby, your own sins are legend. — Our sins... Our sins against the beating of children with bricks and hoses. Our sins. Our sins... against the black child who hanged herself for fear of your temper. — I do not see how... — You do not see! Now put them on. Put them on your face, or it'll be your eyes that are broken. Please don't imagine that I won't use this minute to do it, or that I am afraid of your prayers or your crosses. — You see the world broken. Like those beaten children will. Polly and Thomas found out about the nuns' abuse of children at the shelter they sponsored and came to pick up the children. Peaky Blinders Season 5 Episode 3 The Abbess Aunt Polly Gray Thomas Shelby mockery beating, battery sin
Here in St. Cloud's, he wrote, I try to consider, with each rule I make or break, that my first priority is an orphan's future. It is for his or her future, for example, that I destroy any record of the identity of his or her natural mother. The unfortunate women who give birth here have made a very difficult decision; they should not, later in their lives, be faced with making this decision again. And in almost every case the orphans should be spared any later search for the biological parents; certainly, the orphans should, in most cases, be spared the discovery of the actual parents. I am thinking of them, always of them — only of the orphans! Of course they will, one day, want to know; at the very least, they will be curious. But how does it help anyone to look forward to the past? How are orphans served by having their past to look ahead to? Orphans, especially, must look ahead to their futures. John Irving The Cider House Rules Dr. Wilbur Larch parents