All Heather O'Neill Quotes
- 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… Adult
- 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… All
- 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… Becoming
- 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… Apartment
- 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… Big
- 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… Bible
- The ground was silvery, as if some stars had fallen there. Fallen
- The stars are always up in the sky...then when it is perfectly black, they feel less vulnerable and out they come. Black
- My breath in the cold air was bleach that accidentally spilled on a black t-shirt. Accidentally
- Somewhere, a sparrow is singing in B minor. 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.… All
- I have an artistic temperament, which is a really tragic thing. Artistic
- 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… All
- 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… Been
- 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 morality… Babbling
- It never occurs to you when you are very young to need something other than what your parents have to offer you. Need Something
- 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,… Beautiful
- Lonely children probably wrote the Bible. 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?… Able
- 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… Able
- All writers have the idea that they are famous. All
- Many writers were picked on as children. Why? Because they were weird from the get-go. They were often to be found at the back of… Balanced