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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3972a41 | Tell the truth and shame the Devil, remember. | Martina Cole | ||
| 3b38786 | will always be there for you, and so will your dad. We might fight and argue, but we are family at bottom, eh? | Martina Cole | ||
| 1ccdec8 | She wanted to warn them; they would waste their youth because they did not realise just how fleeting it was, and because most people did. | Martina Cole | ||
| 274d29f | Her old dad used to say God is good, and he was good, but he was also very busy. He just needed a bit of help now and again. | Martina Cole | ||
| 72140f0 | The future was eventually all about what you had really done, not what you wished you had done. | Martina Cole | ||
| 5563846 | he was an intelligent lunatic and they were as dangerous as they were rare. | Martina Cole | ||
| abf1fb5 | She had always been the voice of reason, had been the one who smoothed over quarrels and made sure that they remembered they were family. Stopped the fights before they began and reminded them that, at the end of the day, each other was all that any of them really had. As close as they were, they had all fallen out big time over the years. She had been the voice of reason. | Martina Cole | ||
| 824fbc6 | She had held them together with the sheer force of her will and her overpowering love. What would happen to them all now? Who would keep them all together, make sure they didn't fall apart, didn't rake up the past and cause murders? | Martina Cole | ||
| ebd7c86 | He had no intention of fighting for a country that he saw as holding men down and offering them nothing except back-breaking work. He had said as much to his commanding officer. He had also robbed the army stores blind; the black market was still thriving at the time, and he had used that for his own ends. | Martina Cole | ||
| a490e56 | Now, as a wage earner, she had gained a certain grudging respect, but it had been a long time coming. At fifteen, she understood her life better than people three times her age; she needed to keep the peace until she had enough money to set up on her own, or marry herself out of it all. | Martina Cole | ||
| 8a7bf54 | And it was true. People gave out their whole life stories to anyone and everyone without a second's thought. Stand at a bus stop, sit in a strange pub, get banged up, and someone would always give you their life story. | Martina Cole | ||
| 7414383 | Show me the company you keep and I'll tell you what you are. | Martina Cole | ||
| 5e2f0c9 | Why did people feel like this nowadays? Why were they so scared of chastising their kids, of making them listen to reason, explaining that what they were doing was wrong? Mary had not felt for a long time that she was in a position to offer her advice and she wondered when the children, the youngest members of the family, had suddenly acquired so much power that they were more or less laws unto themselves. | Martina Cole | ||
| a5f6a13 | Blessed are they that mourn: For they shall be comforted. Matthew 5:4 | Martina Cole | ||
| 8c5ac89 | You just had to keep going, day by day. | Martina Cole | ||
| 1b511b0 | It's what you do. Just keep trying, day by day, to sort everything out. | Martina Cole | ||
| f27d3ea | It was a bastard, life. It had the knack of throwing you a curve every now and then to keep you interested. To give you a reason to keep going. Then, just as you thought you had cracked it, you took delivery of a blow that was so severe you were amazed at how you could ever have survived it. But somehow you did, and somehow you carried on. | Martina Cole | ||
| b66f825 | A truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent. William Blake, 1757-1827, 'Auguries of Innocence' Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. Proverbs 31:10 | Martina Cole | ||
| 7109f9b | They didn't mean that the sins a parent might commit would be visited on their offspring. The words actually meant that the mistakes a parent made while they were bringing up their children would be visited on the second, the third, even the fourth generation. | Martina Cole | ||
| 5aa5b5b | all you had at the end of the day was your name, and that made it the more important because it was something you either respected or you were ashamed of. Your name was all you had, the only thing that you couldn't ever deny. | Martina Cole | ||
| c48a91b | Addicts' children should be removed from their influence, and placed as far away from the offender as was humanly possible. | Martina Cole | ||
| 3ce302b | Your name was the only thing you ever really owned, for good or for bad; that choice was yours. | Martina Cole | ||
| 797dee0 | Life for life, Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe. - Exodus, 21:23 | Martina Cole | ||
| ab11f5a | There are many types of love, | Martina Cole | ||
| 5dddfcc | How they had the nerve to sanction other countries about their penal laws when they treated their own as guilty before there was even a trial, he did not know. Innocent till proven guilty? | Martina Cole | ||
| 7870724 | Thou shalt not steal; an empty feat, When it's so lucrative to cheat. - Arthur Hugh Clough 'The Latest Decalogue' Proprium humani ingenii est odisse quem laeseris. It is part of human nature to hate the man you have hurt. - Tacitus Aricola, | Martina Cole | ||
| c89172b | She was shivering from the cold, and from her deep-seated fear of having to live a broken and lonely life like this for the rest of her days. So stunted were her emotions, though, that even now, at her lowest ebb, it did not occur to her to cry. Crying had never gained Lily anything, even as a baby it had never brought her mother to her side, and so she did not understand that to most girls of her age it was a powerful weapon to be used, wa.. | Martina Cole | ||
| 33e93f3 | Walking away was easy, it was staying around and sorting out your own shit that took guts, that made you a man. | Martina Cole | ||
| 2ef17a0 | Young Pat Junior was a handful, and he loved him with all his heart. He was his father's son all right; he only hoped that he didn't have anything of his paternal grandfather inside him. | Martina Cole | ||
| 0c33ada | Real life was not what everyone thought it was. | Martina Cole | ||
| e46b858 | People only know what you tell them. Well, if you didn't tell them anything then you were safe. | Martina Cole | ||
| f311c0e | J.K. Rowling's and Terry Pratchett's. He liked to lose himself in fantasies where people always solved their problems, made sure that right was done and evil cast aside. If only life was that simple. | Martina Cole | ||
| b0a64b2 | No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. - William Shakespeare Richard III (Act I, scene ii) Protection is not a principle but an expedient. - Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881 | Martina Cole | ||
| 62a79f4 | His mother had always said, 'We are all guilty of something even if it is only laziness or ignorance.' He had never understood what she meant till now. | Martina Cole | ||
| d85e8a8 | What goes around comes around. How true those words were. | Martina Cole | ||
| 24c48b4 | It was like the old riddle: How did the man get out of the room with no windows and no doors? Well, the answer was: The same way he got in there. | Martina Cole | ||
| 9c2249c | But what he really liked about Marie Carter was her quietness. She had a quiet voice and a quiet nature. | Martina Cole | ||
| 75c3948 | Every person who was hurt was only hurting because they loved someone. | Martina Cole | ||
| fa4a08d | People only do to you what you let them. | Martina Cole | ||
| da4e75b | find a positive instead of a negative, and you will find your life is much easier to bear. | Martina Cole | ||
| e29d3fb | find a positive instead of a negative, and you will find your life is much easier to bear. The | Martina Cole | ||
| 4052bbc | She glanced at the mobile phone on the night table and noted that it was still turned off. She decided she didn't want to hear from Maisie again. She would throw the bloody thing away. She didn't like them anyway. They were intrusive and made you accessible twenty-four hours a day. Didn't people feel they wanted any peace any more, on call twenty-four seven? She found it almost Orwellian. No one seemed to have any privacy. CCTV cameras ever.. | Martina Cole | ||
| 43c0a0e | It's not what happens to you but how you deal with it. | Martina Cole | ||
| 0de8935 | They weren't a bad family. At least they loved one another, cared for one another. Most of the time anyway. | Martina Cole |