3 Quotes & Sayings By Trevor Cole

Trevor Cole was born in England in 1966. After completing his education at Cambridge University, he worked as a regional Manager for Shell International in the UK and Africa. He has worked in the oil industry for over 25 years, living and working in the Middle East, North America and Western Europe. Mr Read more

Cole is married to British author Simone Cole and lives in Hampshire with his wife and two children. He has written two novels, The Dogs of War (2007) and The Secret of Steel (2011).

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My mother is a certainty. I can count on the watercolour pain in her voice when she calls to say she hasn't heard from me in months. The precarious laughter as she comes from the kitchen, when I finally do appear on her doorstep, the laughter that says I might be a chickadee that's alighted unexpectedly on her thumb. Trevor Cole
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My mother may no longer be (if she ever was) a mast to which I can rope myself. But I fear the loss of Lesley. Without her observance, and her sturdy presence, I would feel windblown. Trevor Cole