Quotes from Martina Cole

Something good always came out of tragedy. He had heard that many times and now he knew it was true. God had given him a second chance at life and he was going to grab it with both hands.

There are many types of love,

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, 1812-1870

eventually you regretted the things you hadn't done as much as the things you had.

No time like the present' Mrs Manley (The Lost Lover, 1696), 1663-1724 'From marrying in haste, and repenting at leisure; Not liking the person, yet liking his treasure.' Elizabeth Thomas, 1675-1731 'What's done cannot be undone.' William Shakespeare (Macbeth, 1606), 1564-1616

You just had to keep going, day by day.

Her old dad used to say God is good, and he was good, but he was also very busy. He just needed a bit of help now and again.

If a man can't give you more than you can give yourself, then dump him.

It's what you do. Just keep trying, day by day, to sort everything out.

It was funny, but even though the kids lived their own lives and she was useless in her efforts to help them any more, she still couldn't sleep until they were all in. Safe and sound.

As my mum used to say, be careful what you ask for, you just might get it.

You must look out for number one. If you don't, no one else will.

everything he needed

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.

Take care and God bless, Martina x

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

I have had enough. At last I have had enough. I wouldn't have you now if your dick was dripping in diamonds and you farted perfume. So piss off.

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do Edmund Burke (1729–97)

struggling. Eventually, after about five minutes,

You make people into what you want them to be and, then, when they break your heart, you have to find the strength to carry on.

No one, no matter who they are, is above common courtesy. Remember that,

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.

If kids don't take to a person, I always feel they have inside knowledge that we don't have. They suss people out much easier.

In trouble to be troubled is to have your trouble doubled.' – The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe, c. 1659-1661