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You don't need to know what you're escaping from to become a fugitive.
Arabella 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.
Arabella Pollen
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Discontented women are like pressure cookers. The steam rises and one day they just reach boiling point.
Arabella Pollen -
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.
Arabella Pollen -
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.
Arabella Pollen -
A little bit of suspicion is a dangerous thing; a drop from a pipette of poison into a bucket of otherwise clean water.
Arabella Pollen -
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.
Arabella Pollen -
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.
Arabella Pollen