Quotes from Martina Cole

it wasn't what happened to you, it was how you dealt with it.

Your family is either the best thing that ever happened to you or it's the worst thing that ever happened to you.

She was his Achilles heel because deep inside he loved her, really loved her, and he knew that once she had loved him. Adored him even. Until she had sussed him out.

It had a woman's feel for colour and space. Men tended to put things in the first place available and just leave them there. Women thought a room out, knew how a room would look at its best. Women, Kate had observed, took time with details. Small details that could make a room like this.

Everything changes. Everything has to change. Sure, that's what life is all about, isn't it? Making things happen, making things change.

People only do to you what you let them.

Oh, to be that young again, and know what she knew now.

them all, and cost them dearly. He knew more about their daughter's future

Your children were given to you and you had to protect them as best you could. It was as simple as that.

When I did Dangerous Lady, they told me it was too violent and I said – she's hardly going to hit them with her handbag!

It was rumoured even her husband would cross the road rather than meet Joanie when she had the hump.

You have a blank piece of paper, Glenford, and what you eventually write on it is of your own doing. Good or bad, you have to decide for yourself.

Life is what you make it,

Whoever said that money made you happy was a liar. A dirty rotten stinking liar!

Tell the truth and shame the Devil, remember.

find a positive instead of a negative, and you will find your life is much easier to bear.

A man could love a woman but she would never be his be-all and end-all, though a clever man might let her think she was, of course. But nature would always out. The mother of the main children must be taken care of at all costs and a man had to know that any children he was bringing up were his own. No cuckoos in the fucking nest to grow and betray you at some point. You had to be careful.

Think with your head, not your heart.' He looked

find a positive instead of a negative, and you will find your life is much easier to bear. The

I'm a great believer in anything that gets anyone reading

her face on. Eileen never looked natural, had never looked

People only knew what you told them, only saw what you wanted them to see. Her mother had hammered that into her head since she was a child,