quotes about Cardboard Boxes

“The very damaging, frightening part of postpartum is the lack of perspective and the lack of priority and understanding what is really important.”

“Life begins to happen. My hoppped up husband drops his home disputes, and hits the streets to cruise for prostitutes”

“I used to feel like I was drowning. So I stopped trying to swim.”

“But my mother's life was a never-ending round of maintenance. Not one single thing did she ever achieve but that it had to be done all over again, one day or one week or one season later. Oh, the monotony.”

Source : Jacqueline Kelly (2009). “The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate”, p.213, Macmillan

“I don't even want a boyfriend. I just want someone who wants to hang out all the time, and thinks I'm the best person in the world, and wants to have sex with only me.”

“He kissed me, and I pulled my personal psycho into bed with me.”

“I thought I understood what was best. I knew too little and believed too soon.”

“You better not compromise yourself, it's all you've got.”

“I had so many beliefs against being a singer or what it takes. There was a lot of pain associated with that. The rejection of it all. I lived in a rejection state of mind. Not because of my voice; the mike never rejected me. It was harboring all those bad memories of being broke. It teaches you your worth. Nothing good comes from that.”

“He's not just the most powerful man in labor," Robert Kennedy had said in the wake of Hoffa's announcement; "he's the most powerful man in the country, next to the President.”