Quotes from Martina Cole

be careful what you ask for, you just might get it. Never was a truer word spoken.

Every night and every morn Some to misery are born. William Blake, 1757-1827, 'Auguries of Innocence

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 was terrifying. She depended on her so much, needed her so desperately that even though she knew it was selfish, she prayed her mother pulled through as she had before.

It was there to be used because time past could never be regained. And time did pass, excruciatingly slowly at times but it did pass, and you could let it pass you by or use it to your own benefit.

What goes around comes around. How true those words were.

Glad that if nothing else he had learned one thing. You couldn't protect your kids properly until you understood exactly what you were supposed to be protecting them from.

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.

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.

Aiden would have laughed. But obviously he had not found anything even

Listen, life is short, even at its longest, it's short.

The East End had a saying: 'If you get a capture, hold your hand up.

But what he really liked about Marie Carter was her quietness. She had a quiet voice and a quiet nature.

because she was the best thing that ever happened to any of us; she kept us together, and she made sure we were a family. Now all we have left is each other.' Christy looked at them all and said quietly, 'Amen to that.

the implication was there for anyone to hear.

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

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 31:10

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 and far between, the only person a child could really count on was the woman who had grown them, birthed them and nurtured them. Now, here he was, confronting someone who, at any other time, he would feel honour-bound to help carry her shopping home.

Every person who was hurt was only hurting because they loved someone.

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 visited on the second, the third, even the fourth generation.

all you had at the end of the day was your name, and that made it the more important because it was something you either respected or you were ashamed of. Your name was all you had, the only thing that you couldn't ever deny.

O Lord, thou hast seen my wrong: Judge thou my cause. Lamentations 3:59

Life's a big present from God but what you do with it is up to you. You get one crack at it, it's not a dress rehearsal as me mother used to say.

Addicts' children should be removed from their influence, and placed as far away from the offender as was humanly possible.

Your name was the only thing you ever really owned, for good or for bad; that choice was yours.