Susan Boyer > Susan's Quotes

“The time to stand up is when everyone is putting you down.”
― Jasmine Zumideh Needs a Win

“All the times Mom and Dad fought when we were little, I hid out at Bridget’s house. If her dad had been drinking, we would pull down the frothy, pink netting around her four-poster bed and pretend we were princesses, safe in our castle with her Golden Retriever, Elsie, there to protect us, instead of two scared, little girls.”
― Jasmine Zumideh Needs a Win

“I’m caught in a web of lies, the spider and the fly.”
― Jasmine Zumideh Needs a Win

“Iranians were never on TV before. Now they’re on all the time. Images of angry Iranian students shouting “Death to America” dominate the nightly news. There’s even a whole, new news show on ABC opposite The Late Show with Johnny Carson: The Iran Crisis—America Held Hostage: Day Fill in the Blank. Every day, the show’s title updates, e.g., America Held Hostage: Day Six, America Held Hostage: Day Seven. The worst advent calendar ever.”
― Jasmine Zumideh Needs a Win

“What is my platform? Well, winning. And getting into NYU.

“I’ll identify my principles and platform during the campaign kickoff,” I say, which sounds very presidential without actually saying anything meaningful.”
― Jasmine Zumideh Needs a Win

“Bridget has never envied me anything. Ever. It’s unnatural, it literally violates the natural order of things. Like pigs flying.
Or anyone cheating on her.”
― Jasmine Zumideh Needs a Win