Quotes from Martina Cole

the lights went on and Aiden

people he was paid to visit.

you couldn't fight age, not really. If you had ten face-lifts and your whole body remodelled, you might look younger but you would still be fifty or sixty or whatever. Looking younger did not make you younger. Time passed, and the older you got the quicker it seemed to go.

But she wanted her mother to know that she did love her. All day, every day, she loved her.

Real life was not what everyone thought it was.

Christine Booth was sick of her mother's voice, it was like a constant

Non Omnis Moriar. I shall not altogether die. Horace (65 BC-8 BC)

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 (1788–1824)

Without a second thought, without anything except their own need to give.

People only know what you tell them. Well, if you didn't tell them anything then you were safe.

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. Somewhere to run to, and somewhere to call home.

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.

once your mother was gone, they were gone, and no one could ever replace them.

No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. - William Shakespeare Richard III (Act I, scene ii) Protection is not a principle but an expedient. - Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881

His mother had always said, 'We are all guilty of something even if it is only laziness or ignorance.' He had never understood what she meant till now.

When your children are young they tread on your feet. When they get older they tread on your heart!

Your mum is gone, but you are a part of her legacy – while you live, she will never really be dead. You have her blood in your veins, and her wisdom in your mind. Your child will be a part of her even though she is gone.

People only know what you tell them, child. Remember that all your life. Only tell your secrets to people you know will keep them just what they are. Who will keep them as they were meant to be. Kept. Secret.

Charity and beating begins at home. John Fletcher, 1579-1625, Wit Without Money

Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good.

His soft voice was his trademark and he had a saying: You can do more with a soft voice than a big stick.

missed her mother and her sister so badly it was a constant pain inside of her.

The half is greater than the whole Hesiod, ca. 700 BC

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.