The Ladykiller Quotes

“What's bred in the bone comes out in the blood.”
― Martina Cole, The Ladykiller

“God pays back debts without money.”
― Martina Cole, The Ladykiller

“What’s bred in the bone comes out in the blood.’ How many times had she said that to people?”
― Martina Cole, The Ladykiller

“There were other ways of battering women too, ways that did not involve physical violence, and Kate sometimes thought that the mental battering was worse.”
― Martina Cole, The Ladykiller

“Of all the griefs that harass the distress’d Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest; Fate never wounds more deep the gen’rous heart, Than when a blockhead’s insult points the dart – Samuel Johnson, 1709-84”
― Martina Cole, The Ladykiller

“Life for life, Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, Hand for hand, foot for foot. Burning for burning, wound for wound, Stripe for stripe”
― Martina Cole, The Ladykiller

“Live your life how you want. Before you know it you’ll be old. Old as me. And when you get to my age you get a different perspective on life. Suddenly, every day seems just that little bit shorter. You feel the ache coming in your bones. You know that the best, most fruitful part of your life is over. I read once that when people get old and go senile, they go back to a time in their life when they were useful.”
― Martina Cole, The Ladykiller

“The driver was sitting outside waiting and suddenly she remembered him. ‘Oh, your poor Willy must be freezing!”
― Martina Cole, The Ladykiller

“known the security of love, as a child and as an adult.”
― Martina Cole, The Ladykiller

“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.”
― Martina Cole, The Ladykiller