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.
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...
They weren’t a bad family. At least they loved one another, cared for one another. Most of the time anyway.
There was an old Irish saying of my nana’s – she always said you get the life you deserve. I hope against hope that there was no truth in that. But only time will tell.
Pride only breeds quarrels, but wisdom is found in all those who take advice Proverbs 13:10
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...
His mother had pointed out that the attack with the axe was no more than she would have done herself for her own children. That a mother would protect her young because, with good fathers being few an...
He who brings trouble to his family will inherit only wind, and the fool will be servant to the wise Proverbs 11:29
He healeth those that are broken in heart: and giveth medicine to heal their sickness. 147:1 Prayer Book , 1662
Dux femina facti The leader of the enterprise a woman. Virgil
As my mum used to say, be careful what you ask for, you just might get it.
After all, they were brothers, bonded by blood, and nothing would ever change that.
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.
Why did you have to lose something before you could fully appreciate it?
The house of the righteous contains great treasure, but the income of the wicked brings them trouble Proverbs 15:6
The dole was supposed to tide you over till you got a fucking job. It was never meant to be your fucking main earn.
She was not a person who had any right to decency or kindness, she was not a person to aspire to be. She was cruel, and she was evil in many ways. She took what she wanted from anyone, she was nasty,...
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, a...
Quem Jupiter vult perdere, dementat prius. Whom God would destroy, He first sends mad. Homeri Gnomologia James Duport, 1606-1679