Your name was the only thing you ever really owned, for good or for bad; that choice was yours.
Who was it who once said: ‘Keep your friends close, but keep your enemies closer still’? An astute man whoever he was,
What goes around comes around. How true those words were.
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.
The dole was supposed to tide you over till you got a fucking job. It was never meant to be your fucking main earn.
Show me the company you keep and I’ll tell you what you are.
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...
Oscar Wilde said that youth was wasted on the young, and he was right. When you were young you wasted not only your own life, but usually someone else’s as well.
Once things were said out loud, they could never be taken back. They were out there for ever.
Now she knew why her mum had kept such a close eye on her; she wasn’t interfering as such, she had just understood that there were people in this world who were capable of causing great hurt as well a...
Listen, life is short, even at its longest, it’s short.
I’m a great believer in anything that gets anyone reading . .
It’s what you do. Just keep trying, day by day, to sort everything out.
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 healeth those that are broken in heart: and giveth medicine to heal their sickness. 147:1 Prayer Book , 1662
God be merciful to me a sinner. Luke 18:13
Destiny Wallace was just fourteen years old but she looked at least nineteen or twenty - and that was in her school uniform. Annie couldn't help but wonder if evolution was to blame, because most of t...
Charity and beating begins at home. John Fletcher, 1579-1625, Wit Without Money
Catholic guilt was the most destructive sort of guilt because the person that it concerned had no real concept of it. They didn’t even realise that it existed. Catholic guilt was something that grew a...