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Lonely children probably wrote the Bible.
Heather O'neill / Novelist
Children
Lonely
Lonely Child
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Somewhere, a sparrow is singing in B minor.
Heather O'neill / Novelist
Minors
Singing
Sparrows
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All writers have the idea that they are famous.
Heather O'neill / Novelist
All Writers
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The ground was silvery, as if some stars had fallen there.
Heather O'neill / Novelist
Fallen
Ifs
Stars
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I have an artistic temperament, which is a really tragic thing.
Heather O'neill / Novelist
Artistic
Temperament
Tragic
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My breath in the cold air was bleach that accidentally spilled on a black t-shirt.
Heather O'neill / Novelist
Air
Black
Bleach
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Adolescents are still children in that they can't yet tell the difference between make believe and fiction.
Heather O'neill / Novelist
Believe
Children
Differences
Adolescent
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It never occurs to you when you are very young to need something other than what your parents have to offer you.
Heather O'neill / Novelist
Dandelions
Needs
Parent
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The stars are always up in the sky...then when it is perfectly black, they feel less vulnerable and out they come.
Heather O'neill / Novelist
Black
Sky
Stars
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In the temporary illumination of the headlights, the insects were scribbling out messages from God that we couldn't get.
Heather O'neill / Novelist
Illumination
Insects
Messages
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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 break all the time.
Heather O'neill / Novelist
Broken
Heart
People
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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, I imagine.
Heather O'neill / Novelist
Beautiful
Bird
Imagine
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Adolescents are attracted to tragic heroes. That's why rock stars dress like homeless people. Adolescence is a fall. It's when every child becomes an orphan.
Heather O'neill / Novelist
Adolescence
Children
Fall
Homeless
Orphan
Stars
Tragic
Heroes
Rock Stars
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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 to me by turning them into fiction.
Heather O'neill / Novelist
Childhood
Fiction
Idiotic
Profit
Unfortunate
Unfortunate Things
Turning
Ludicrous
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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 way the world is run; you just have to hurry to catch up with it.
Heather O'neill / Novelist
Kids
Running
Love Is
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A lot of children grow up in poverty with flawed parents, but their inner world is still as inherently filled with wonder and innocence as children who are kept away from the city's underbelly.
Heather O'neill / Novelist
Children
Cities
Filled
Growing Up
Inner World
Poverty
Wonder
Away
City
Grow Up
Parents
Inherently
Inner
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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 that's taken away from you in life, if you think about it.
Heather O'neill / Novelist
Children
Taken
Thinking
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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? You become the closest approximation of yourself that can tolerate living there.
Heather O'neill / Novelist
Able
Numbness
Self
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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 and utter disbelief in cause and effect
Heather O'neill / Novelist
Causes
Choices
Years
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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 get down on their knees and pray for you to return. That child will turn you into God. Lonely children probably wrote the Bible.
Heather O'neill / Novelist
Children
Lonely
Love You
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We were broke in a way that only kids can be broke. Our toes were black with dye from wearing boots that weren't waterproof. We had infected ear lobes and green rings around our fingers from cheap jewelry. No one ever even had a chocolate bar.
Heather O'neill / Novelist
Kids
Black
Chocolate
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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 the class smelling erasers, or talking to caterpillars, or walking down the street with an encyclopedia balanced on their head.
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Balanced
Encyclopedia
Picked
Smelling
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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. The universe is a strange, strange place when all of a sudden you can't use your glass with the Bionic Woman on it any more.
Heather O'neill / Novelist
Kids
Glasses
Strange Places
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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 anymore. The first kiss is the one that you suffer the consequences of. It was as if I had been playing Russian roulette and finally got the cylinder with the bullet in it.
Heather O'neill / Novelist
Love
Children
Real
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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 if we all really did have a soundtrack, but we just get so used to it that we can’t hear it anymore, the same way that we block out the sound of our own heartbeat.
Heather O'neill / Novelist
Block
Snow
Thinking
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People give you a hard time about being a kid at twelve. They didn't want to give you Halloween candy anymore. They said things like, “If this were the Middle Ages, you'd be married and you'd own a farm with about a million chickens on it.” They were trying to kick you out of childhood. Once you were gone, there was no going back, so you had to hold on as long as you could.
Heather O'neill / Novelist
Kids
Halloween
Hard Times
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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 writer has to invent their own magical language, in order to describe the indescribable. They might seem to be writing in French, English, or Spanish, but really they were writing in the language of butterflies, crows, and hanged men.
Heather O'neill / Novelist
Men
Butterfly
Writing
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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 live in a cheap lousy apartment. A cracked chair is nothing other than a chair. A dandelion growing out of a crack in the sidewalk outside your front door is a garden. You could believe that a song your parent was singing in the evening was the most tragic opera in the world. It never occurs to you when you are very young to need something other than what your parents have to offer you.
Heather O'neill / Novelist
Believe
Garden
Song
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