Blue Mercy Quotes

“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, they say, but what if you are the beauty? Then, it's the look in a man's eye coming at you, telling you know more than you want to know. It's the dislike they deal you for desiring you. Beauty doesn't write the book or raise the child or learn the knowledge. It's for the beholder, not the holder.”
― Orna Ross, Blue Mercy

“Calling all mothers! Some advice for you. If you have a little girl, don't be the kind of mother who says: "All I want is for her to be happy." No, no, no. Want her to be top of her class. Want her to become Chairman of the Board. Want her to marry a millionaire. Want something negotiable, so she has room to rebel. If all you want is for her to be happy, all she can do to separate from you is be miserable.”
― Orna Ross, Blue Mercy

“A mother's place is in the wrong.”
― Orna Ross, Blue Mercy

“You know, Mercy, it is really very simple." He took my hand. "He has no power, hon. Not unless you hand yours over.”
― Orna Ross, Blue Mercy

“How could I not stand myself? Was I one person or two?”
― Orna Ross, Blue Mercy

“I came to hate how everything gets junked in America: the food processed and adulterated with sugar and fat; the clothes cheapened; the TV dumbed down; the sex commodified. So that no matter how much we're given, we never feel sated, we're always craving. I came to see how we're addicted to addiction.”
― Orna Ross, Blue Mercy