What goes around comes around.
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
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
The half is greater than the whole Hesiod, ca. 700 BC
Tardiness was the greatest insult of them all; arrangements were made to suit those concerned – it was the height of rudeness to overlook other people’s needs.
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...
One day, you’ll wake up and thirty or forty years will have flown by.
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...
Now, as a wage earner, she had gained a certain grudging respect, but it had been a long time coming. At fifteen, she understood her life better than people three times her age; she needed to keep the...
My sister and my sister’s child, Myself and children three.’ – William Cowper, 1731-1800 With affection beaming in one eye and calculation shining out of the other. – Martin Chuzzlewit Charles Dickens...
Look after the pennies, and the pounds always looked after themselves.
Like the old adage, you never knew what you had till it was gone.
It was a bastard, life. It had the knack of throwing you a curve every now and then to keep you interested. To give you a reason to keep going. Then, just as you thought you had cracked it, you took d...
In trouble to be troubled is to have your trouble doubled.’ – The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe, c. 1659-1661
Imelda believed in God because she felt that there had to be something else, something after all this, and also because anyone who was still being worshipped and adored after all that time had to have...
How they had the nerve to sanction other countries about their penal laws when they treated their own as guilty before there was even a trial, he did not know. Innocent till proven guilty?
He had no intention of fighting for a country that he saw as holding men down and offering them nothing except back-breaking work. He had said as much to his commanding officer. He had also robbed the...
Dux femina facti The leader of the enterprise a woman. Virgil
Why did people feel like this nowadays? Why were they so scared of chastising their kids, of making them listen to reason, explaining that what they were doing was wrong? Mary had not felt for a long...