Bella Pollen Quotes

• Women only cut their hair in times of crisis... It's somethin' a woman always has the power to do, even when she loses control over everything else. Cuttin' hair is a cry for help.

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  Cutting, Hair, Times Of Crisis

  Bella Pollen (2011). “Midnight Cactus”, p.183, Pan Macmillan

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• If America is the land of opportunity, a country where perseverance and hard work is rewarded by recognition, then an illegal harbors the opposite ambitions. His greatest reward us anonymity, invisibility. Aided and abetted by market forces and the laws of supply and demand, he hones his skill to stand up but make sure he's never counted.

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  Country, Perseverance, Hard Work

  Bella Pollen (2011). “Midnight Cactus”, p.256, Pan Macmillan

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• Let me tell you something: You can live in a broken home, you can play with a broken toy, but you cannot love with a broken heart.

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  Home, Heart, Play

  Bella Pollen (2011). “Hunting Unicorns”, p.284, Pan Macmillan

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• Unhappiness is a dangerous thing, like carbon monoxide. You don't smell it, you don't taste it, it's formless and colourless, but it poisons slowly. It seeps into every pore of your skin until one day your heart just stops beating.

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  Heart, Smell, Unhappy

  Bella Pollen (2011). “Midnight Cactus”, p.17, Pan Macmillan

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• Discontented women are like pressure cookers. The steam rises and one day they just reach boiling point.

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  One Day, Pressure, Steam

  Bella Pollen (2011). “Midnight Cactus”, p.264, Pan Macmillan

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• A little bit of suspicion is a dangerous thing; a drop from a pipette of poison into a bucket of otherwise clean water.

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  Water, Buckets, Poison

  Bella Pollen (2011). “Midnight Cactus”, p.218, Pan Macmillan

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• People aren't often asked to make life or death decisions. There are no causes to die for. You can go through life never knowing which of your friends would really come through for you

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  Knowing, People, Decision

  Bella Pollen (2011). “Midnight Cactus”, p.320, Pan Macmillan

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• The world exists on thousands of different levels and just because some are more tragic than others, it doesn't make them any more valid. You fall into that way of thinking and you become so overwhelmed by the world's suffering, you go mad.

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  Fall, Thinking, Mad

  Bella Pollen (2011). “Midnight Cactus”, p.276, Pan Macmillan

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• I think women sign on for some ideal when they get married, and when they realise they haven't got anything close to what they want, they bury their disappointment.

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  Disappointment, Thinking, Want

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• You don't need to know what you're escaping from to become a fugitive.

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  Escaping, Needs, Fugitive

  Bella Pollen (2011). “Midnight Cactus”, p.174, Pan Macmillan

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• Children expect their mothers to love them, no matter what. Those who don't get this tend to feel cheated the rest of their lives.

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  Mother, Children, Matter

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