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Journalist

Born on June 22, 1961, Bella Pollen is an accomplished journalist known for her passion and dedication to the news industry. She is renowned for her in-depth investigations and fair reporting.

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Famous Bella Pollen Quotes

“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.”

Heart Play Home Broken Let Me Toys Broken Homes

Book:Hunting Unicorns

Source: Hunting Unicorns

“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.”

Heart Dangerous Taste One Day Skins Smell Unhappy Poison Unhappiness Carbon Dangerous Things

Book:Midnight Cactus

Source: Midnight Cactus

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

Knows Needs Escaping Fugitive

Book:Midnight Cactus

Source: Midnight Cactus

“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.”

Helping Loses Cutting Cry Hair Crisis Times Of Crisis

Book:Midnight Cactus

Source: Midnight Cactus

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

Littles Bits Water Dangerous Little Bit Clean Poison Suspicion Dangerous Things Buckets Clean Water

Book:Midnight Cactus

Source: Midnight Cactus

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

One Day Pressure Steam Boiling Cookers Boiling Point

Book:Midnight Cactus

Source: Midnight Cactus

“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.”

Feels Children Matter Mother No Matter What Cheated

Author:Bella Pollen

“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”

People Dies Choices Causes Decision Knowing Life Or Death

Book:Midnight Cactus

Source: Midnight Cactus

“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.”

Thinking World Way Different Suffering Fall Levels Mad Tragic Overwhelmed Way Of Thinking Different Levels

Book:Midnight Cactus

Source: Midnight Cactus

“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.”

Thinking Want Havens Married Ideals Disappointment Realising

Author:Bella Pollen

“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.”

Source: Midnight Cactus

About the Author

Born: June 22, 1961
Known for: Journalist
Quotes: 11

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