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.
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
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.
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.
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.
A man’s foes shall be they of his own household. Matthew 10:36
Always fighting, arguing, and mouthing off to teachers and other pupils alike. But it was never her fault, it was always someone else’s fault.
Deep in my soul that tender secret dwells, Lonely and lost to light for evermore, Save when to thine my heart responsive swells, Then trembles into silence as before. ‘The Corsair’, Lord Byron (1788–1...
Destiny Wallace was just fourteen years old but she looked at least nineteen or twenty - and that was in her school uniform. Annie couldn't help but wonder if evolution was to blame, because most of t...
It was family, blood, kin. It was what made the world go round and people strive to better themselves. At the end of the day, family was all you had.
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...
She glanced at the mobile phone on the night table and noted that it was still turned off. She decided she didn’t want to hear from Maisie again. She would throw the bloody thing away. She didn’t like...
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.
Use what you’ve got. Always find a use for what you’ve got. Never promise what you can’t deliver, and always do a deal with a smile and a friendly word if possible. That advice had served him in good...
And it was true. People gave out their whole life stories to anyone and everyone without a second’s thought. Stand at a bus stop, sit in a strange pub, get banged up, and someone would always give you...
God be merciful to me a sinner. Luke 18:13
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...
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?
I hope to meet many of you at my signings, and I look forward to saying hello to you all. Take care and God bless, Martina x
In trouble to be troubled is to have your trouble doubled.’ – The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe, c. 1659-1661
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