The Runaway Quotes

“You can do more with a soft voice than a big stick?”
― Martina Cole, The Runaway

“Oscar Wilde said that youth was wasted on the young, and he was right. When you were young you wasted not only your own life, but usually someone else’s as well.”
― Martina Cole, The Runaway

“It was family, blood, kin. It was what made the world go round and people strive to better themselves. At the end of the day, family was all you had.”
― Martina Cole, The Runaway

“If a man can’t give you more than you can give yourself, then dump him.”
― Martina Cole, The Runaway

“ain’t learned much, but one thing I have learned is this: everyone wants to fuck you, girl, either physically or mentally. You have to put a limit on the shit you’re willing to take and no turning back.”
― Martina Cole, The Runaway

“It was rumoured even her husband would cross the road rather than meet Joanie when she had the hump.”
― Martina Cole, The Runaway

“Every man I’ve ever known has had an angle, some way of using women. With me mum’s blokes it was the obvious – I mean, she was a brass. Most used her for her money or her body. Mostly her money. They lived off her, you know.”
― Martina Cole, The Runaway

“His soft voice was his trademark and he had a saying: You can do more with a soft voice than a big stick.”
― Martina Cole, The Runaway

“Quem Jupiter vult perdere, dementat prius. Whom God would destroy, He first sends mad. Homeri Gnomologia James Duport, 1606-1679”
― Martina Cole, The Runaway