Heather O'Neill Quotes

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• The real first kiss is the one that tells you what it feels like to be an adult and doesn't let you be a child…
• From the way that people have always talked about your heart being broken, it sort of seemed to be a one-time thing. Mine seemed to…
• Becoming a child again is what is impossible. That's what you have a legitimate reason to be upset over. Childhood is the most valuable thing…
• Suddenly I realized that I wanted everything to be as it was when I was younger. When you're young enough, you don't know that you…
• Love is a big and wonderful idea, but life is made up of small things. As a kid, you have nothing to do with the…
• If you want to get a child to love you, then you should just go hide in the closet for three or for hours. They…
• The ground was silvery, as if some stars had fallen there.
• The stars are always up in the sky...then when it is perfectly black, they feel less vulnerable and out they come.
• My breath in the cold air was bleach that accidentally spilled on a black t-shirt.
• Somewhere, a sparrow is singing in B minor.
• When you're a kid, if you watch 'The Jeffersons' with your family at seven o'clock, it seems like a natural phenomenon, like the sun setting.…
• I have an artistic temperament, which is a really tragic thing.
• Sometimes when you are standing still and it’s snowing, you think that you hear music. You can’t tell where it’s coming from either. I wondered…
• On of the reasons that I wanted to study literature was because it exposed everything. Writers looked for secrets that had never been mined. Every…
• In Lullabies, I wanted to capture what I remembered of the drunken babbling of unfortunate twelve-year-olds: their illusions, their ludicrously bad choices, their lack of…
• It never occurs to you when you are very young to need something other than what your parents have to offer you.
• You see only the beautiful things when you stand still. You only see things that you don't ordinarily notice. The birds are the prettiest things,…
• Lonely children probably wrote the Bible.
• Your superhuman power was to be able not to feel. Is it there inside everybody, this self that comes out while you are in captivity?…
• I had a ludicrous childhood, but I feel that I was able to profit from a lot of the idiotic and unfortunate things that happened…

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