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.
One thing she knew was that no matter what happened to you, no matter how bad life got, happiness – true happiness – was a state of mind.
One day, you’ll wake up and thirty or forty years will have flown by.
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...
No one, no matter who they are, is above common courtesy. Remember that,
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.
It’s what you do. Just keep trying, day by day, to sort everything out.
Every man I’ve ever known has had an angle, some way of using women. With me mum’s blokes it was the obvious – I mean, she was a brass. Most used her for her money or her body. Mostly her money. They...
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 For the wages of sin is death Romans 6:23
Addicts’ children should be removed from their influence, and placed as far away from the offender as was humanly possible.
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.
Your name was the only thing you ever really owned, for good or for bad; that choice was yours.
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.
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.
Who was it who once said: ‘Keep your friends close, but keep your enemies closer still’? An astute man whoever he was,
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child.’ – 1 Corinthians 13:11 ‘The children of perdition are oft’times made instruments even of the greatest work.’ – Be...
Walking away was easy, it was staying around and sorting out your own shit that took guts, that made you a man.
There were other ways of battering women too, ways that did not involve physical violence, and Kate sometimes thought that the mental battering was worse.
There is power in the blood, justice in the sword When that call it comes, I will be ready for war Alabama 3, ‘Power In The Blood’ Album: Power in the Blood, 2002