Mother Quote by Heather O'Neill

“You can learn how to be an aristocrat by following a few rules in a very short book. There is nothing to it.” He…

— Heather O'Neill

“I decided to get my butt up out of the coffin, just like Jesus Christ, and come and chitchat with all my beautiful and…

— Heather O'Neill

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…

— Heather O'Neill

“You know you're my best friend, right?' he said. I shrugged. I guessed it was true. Now that I wasn't going to be at…

— Heather O'Neill

“Jules and I were tiny people. We were delicate. We were almost destroyed. We were vulnerable. Like nerds in a school yard of bullies,…

— Heather O'Neill

“Whenever things were going well, I started to feel vain.”

— Heather O'Neill

“When you’re young, sex doesn’t mean as much, it isn’t sacred. Children make the best prostitutes because they’re th emost perfunctory about the whole…

— Heather O'Neill

“Being a woman was a trap. Something would bring you down before you turned twenty-three. The only time the world shows you any favor,…

— Heather O'Neill

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…

— Heather O'Neill

“What are they supposed to do when they've been told their whole lives not to believe in fairy tales?”

— Heather O'Neill

“Felix was in his room singing into a tape recorder then playing it back and exclaiming, “My God. Do I actually sound like this?…

— Heather O'Neill

Adolescents are still children in that they can't yet tell the difference between make believe and fiction.

— Heather O'Neill