He who brings trouble to his family will inherit only wind, and the fool will be servant to the wise Proverbs 11:29
It’s what you do. Just keep trying, day by day, to sort everything out.
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.
Michael Flynn was so angry he was almost spitting his words down the phone. Over six feet tall and with a heavy build he was a big man and, as everyone in the room knew, he was more than capable of gr...
No one, no matter who they are, is above common courtesy. Remember that,
Once things were said out loud, they could never be taken back. They were out there for ever.
One day, you’ll wake up and thirty or forty years will have flown by.
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.
Quem Jupiter vult perdere, dementat prius. Whom God would destroy, He first sends mad. Homeri Gnomologia James Duport, 1606-1679
She already looked dead and Eileen knew that it couldn’t be long before she went. But even though she knew it would be a happy release for her mother, the thought of her never being there ever again w...
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...
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...
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.
What goes around comes around. How true those words were.
What goes around comes around.
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...
Why did you have to lose something before you could fully appreciate 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.
Ain’t learned much, but one thing I have learned is this: everyone wants to fuck you, girl, either physically or mentally. You have to put a limit on the shit you’re willing to take and no turning bac...
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.
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