Quotes by Heather O'Neill

Heather O'Neill

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.

Children

Cities

Growing Up

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.

Children

Fall

Stars

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

Believe

Children

Differences

All writers have the idea that they are famous.

Ideas

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.

Children

Taken

Thinking

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.

Broken

Heart

People

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.

Childhood

Fiction

Unfortunate Things

I have an artistic temperament, which is a really tragic thing.

Artistic

Temperament

Tragic

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.

Children

Lonely

Love You

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

Causes

Choices

Years

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Air

Artistic

Beautiful

Believe

Bird

Black

Bleach

Block

Broken

Butterfly

Causes

Childhood

Children

Chocolate

Choices

Cities

Dandelions

Differences

Fall

Fallen

Fiction

Garden

Glasses

Growing Up

Halloween

Hard Times

Heart

Ideas

Ifs

Illumination

Imagine

Insects

Kids

Lonely

Lonely Child

Love

Love Is

Love You

Men

Messages

Minors

Needs

Numbness

Parent

People

Real

Running

Self

Singing

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Quotes by Heather O'Neill

Heather O'Neill

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.

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.

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

All writers have the idea that they are famous.

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.

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.

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.

I have an artistic temperament, which is a really tragic thing.

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.

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

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