But what he really liked about Marie Carter was her quietness. She had a quiet voice and a quiet nature.
Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. - Galatians, 6:7 He’s mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf, a horse’s health, a boy’s love, or a whore’s...
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.
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 31:1...
A man’s foes shall be they of his own household. Matthew 10:36
She looked at her kids and felt the swell of pride she always did when she saw them en masse. When they were all happy in each other’s company it made it all seem worthwhile.
See that a mother’s love, a real mother’s love, is probably the most important thing a child can have in its life. It means more than money, more than anything.
Mother that she missed so desperately because, no matter what happened in life, there was always a bed for you at your mother’s home. All the time she was alive her children had somewhere to go. Somew...
Beauty could be a scourge, and to remember that looks faded eventually, but the beauty inside her was for ever. She had liked hearing that. It had the ring of truth to it.
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.
You lost the plot again, where you are now ain’t clear, It’s a misty morning memory, the road that took you here Alabama 3, ‘You Don’t Dance To Techno Anymore’ Album: Exile on Coldharbour Lane, 1997
Women loved their babies from the second they pushed them into the world; they were programmed to love them, feed them, and protect them, no matter what.
Why did you have to lose something before you could fully appreciate it?
Walking away was easy, it was staying around and sorting out your own shit that took guts, that made you a man.
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 t...
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 v...
The house of the righteous contains great treasure, but the income of the wicked brings them trouble Proverbs 15:6
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 he...
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,...