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...
Regrets were a waste of time.
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...
Addicts’ children should be removed from their influence, and placed as far away from the offender as was humanly possible.
Charity and beating begins at home. John Fletcher, 1579-1625, Wit Without Money
He healeth those that are broken in heart: and giveth medicine to heal their sickness. 147:1 Prayer Book , 1662
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...
It was like the old riddle: How did the man get out of the room with no windows and no doors? Well, the answer was: The same way he got in there.
Like the old adage, you never knew what you had till it was gone.
Of all the griefs that harass the distress’d Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest; Fate never wounds more deep the gen’rous heart, Than when a blockhead’s insult points the dart – Samuel Johnson, 1...
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.
She shakes the blues off then she tries her luck Makes a little bet, hopes her horse comes up Pickin’ pockets for some easy money ’Cause she blew the goddamn lot on the National Lottery Alabama 3, ‘Ma...
The half is greater than the whole Hesiod, ca. 700 BC
The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.’ George Santayana 1863-1952 ‘There is no peace, saith the Lord, unto the wicked.’ Isaiah 48:22
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
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.
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...
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...
Walking away was easy, it was staying around and sorting out your own shit that took guts, that made you a man.
Without a second thought, without anything except their own need to give.
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