cucumbers have thorns and snakes love strawberries Quotes

“Letting someone strike you once means you’ve just given them the okay to do it again.”
― Janice E. Sullivan, "Cucumbers Have Thorns and Snakes Love Strawberries": How I won

“shoplifting didn’t make you feel like you were one of the people who had the right or deserved nice things. Instead it made me feel like a fraud because the people looking on would only see the pretend me, the ‘boosted’ me that I was able to conjure up.”
― Janice E. Sullivan, "Cucumbers Have Thorns and Snakes Love Strawberries": How I won

“Different’, hmm—there’s the sympathy word I’m looking for. It means you slipped through the cracks and this horrible thing shouldn’t have happened to you.”
― Janice E. Sullivan, "Cucumbers Have Thorns and Snakes Love Strawberries": How I won

“I lay on the couch not able to move. I would sweat for a while, and then I would have chills. As I lay there lonely and afraid, I wondered if anyone would care if I died.”
― Janice E. Sullivan, "Cucumbers Have Thorns and Snakes Love Strawberries": How I won

“I was alone and lonely, a condition that could turn into your worst enemy.”
― Janice E. Sullivan, "Cucumbers Have Thorns and Snakes Love Strawberries": How I won