10 Quotes by Cindy Vine

Your kids never really leave do they? They might live elsewhere, sometimes not even on the same continent, but Mum is always first port of call when there's trouble. Parenting is a lifetime commitment.

It felt great to be loved. Children... Children are a hazard to your life... As they'd got older they had become more expensive. But it was worth it. If she didn't have her children her life would be empty. And even though your children leave your nest, they always have one foot tethered to you.

In books and movies, all the loose ends are tired, things are resolved, mysteries are solved, they catch the killer, the boy gets the girl, a sick baby is miraculously healed. In reality it doesn't always work that way. The killer gets away, the girl is in love with another boy, things just get buried under new dramas and don't get resolved. Life is far more complicated than the life depicted in a book or a movie.

Who knows why our kids do what they do? All we can do is just love them." - Fenella

I have perfected the art of the fake smile. Inside your heart may be bruised and black, but outwardly you look bright and happy.

Betrayal eats into you like maggots on road-kill. Forgiveness is an illusion, because you can never forget what was done to you. You’re stuck in that moment; you haven’t got 4 x 4 in your car, so there’s no moving on away from the deep pit of sadness and hurt. It dominates your every thought, every waking moment, dragging you down.

Sometimes I think I’m still a child trapped in a woman’s body.

Nobody can help me, those are my secrets, scarring my soul just as surely as that razor blade scarred my thighs all those years ago.

In books and movies, all the loose ends are tired, things are resolved, mysteries are solved, they catch the killer, the boy gets the girl, a sick baby is miraculously healed. In reality it doesn’t always work that way. The killer gets away, the girl is in love with another boy, things just get buried under new dramas and don’t get resolved. Life is far more complicated than the life depicted in a book or a movie.