Two Women Quotes

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― Martina Cole, Two Women

“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.”
― Martina Cole, Two Women

“Your children were given to you and you had to protect them as best you could. It was as simple as that.”
― Martina Cole, Two Women

“Everything changes. Everything has to change. Sure, that’s what life is all about, isn’t it? Making things happen, making things change.”
― Martina Cole, Two Women

“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.”
― Martina Cole, Two Women

“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.”
― Martina Cole, Two Women

“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.”
― Martina Cole, Two Women

“Without a second thought, without anything except their own need to give.”
― Martina Cole, Two Women

“We all have to live by our own lights, love, do what we can.”
― Martina Cole, Two Women

“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.”
― Martina Cole, Two Women

“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”
― Martina Cole, Two Women

“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”
― Martina Cole, Two Women

“If we had been left to our own devices we would have been all right. But, oh, no. I had to have the mother-in-law from hell poking her nose in, opening her big trap.”
― Martina Cole, Two Women

“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.”
― Martina Cole, Two Women

“Nothing begins, and nothing ends That is not paid with moan; For we are born in other’s pain, And perish in our own.’ Francis Thompson (‘Daisy’, 1913), 1859-1907 ‘Oh! how many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding ring.’ Colley Cibber (The Double Gallant, 1707), 1671-1757”
― Martina Cole, Two Women