Because she was the best thing that ever happened to any of us; she kept us together, and she made sure we were a family. Now all we have left is each other.’ Christy looked at them all and said quiet...
Be careful what you ask for, you just might get it. Never was a truer word spoken.
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 tha...
You just had to keep going, day by day.
The fathers have eaten sour grapes, And the children’s teeth are set on edge Ezekiel 18:2
The East End had a saying: ‘If you get a capture, hold your hand up.
People only know what you tell them. Well, if you didn’t tell them anything then you were safe.
Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing can ever be made.’ – Immanuel Kant, 1724-1804 ‘He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.’ – Proverbs, 28:20 ‘Believe me! The secret...
Non Omnis Moriar. I shall not altogether die. Horace (65 BC-8 BC)
My old mum always said, if brains was gunpowder he couldn’t blow his fucking eyebrows off.
All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910, Anna Karenina A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit. François Rab...
Once your mother was gone, they were gone, and no one could ever replace them.
Eventually you regretted the things you hadn’t done as much as the things you had.
The future was eventually all about what you had really done, not what you wished you had done.
Tell the truth and shame the Devil, remember.
Pride only breeds quarrels, but wisdom is found in all those who take advice Proverbs 13:10
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.
He who brings trouble to his family will inherit only wind, and the fool will be servant to the wise Proverbs 11:29
Addicts’ children should be removed from their influence, and placed as far away from the offender as was humanly possible.
Job!’ This son of hers was caught up in the middle, as usual. It was the bane of the middle child’s life. Caught between the first-born and the last-born, they were often left to their own devices.