Top 11 Quotes by Bella Pollen

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.

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.

Bella Pollen

Cutting, Hair, Times Of Crisis

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

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.

Bella Pollen

Country, Perseverance, Hard Work

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

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.

Bella Pollen

Home, Heart, Play

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

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.

Bella Pollen

Heart, Smell, Unhappy

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

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

Bella Pollen

One Day, Pressure, Steam

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

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

Bella Pollen

Water, Buckets, Poison

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

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

Bella Pollen

Knowing, People, Decision

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

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.

Bella Pollen

Fall, Thinking, Mad

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

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.

Bella Pollen

Disappointment, Thinking, Want