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Heather O'Neill _ Lullabies for Little Criminals
They tried to look punk but came off looking more like cats with mange. Just
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Heather O'Neill _ Lullabies for Little Criminals
As soon as I looked at Alphonse's face, I knew that he was dead. I had the strange feeling that I was dead myself. It felt as if I were lying at the bottom of a grave and earth was being thrown on me. When death takes someone you know, he holds you and whispers all his secrets in your ear.
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Heather O'Neill _ The Girl Who Was Saturday
Boys are good at personas. There are a certain number that you can get at the drugstore, like costumes before Halloween. Being cool is pretending that you're not afraid of anything. But everybody is afraid. Everybody is afraid.
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Heather O'Neill _ The Lonely Hearts Hotel
What in the world do our clothes say about us when we put them on?" Rose said. "There's no real dignity in any of these costumes. If I'm a maid, I do what the owner of the house tells me to do. If I'm a nurse, I do whatever the doctor tells me to do. What are we as women, other than barnacles that attach themselves to higher life forms in some pathetic attempt to clean up messes? Tidy up what men have left behind - make the world a lovelier, better place for men. I would like to play a part in which I don't have a superior."The director told Rose that she should save her philosophical speculations until after work because they were causing the male actors to lose their erections.
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Heather O'Neill _ Lullabies for Little Criminals
Women aren't mean the way that men are. They're full of life and they're like God in that way.
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Heather O'Neill _ The Girl Who Was Saturday
We just thought of old age as some sort of clown routine.
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Heather O'Neill _ The Girl Who Was Saturday
You feel as if everybody has been given an instruction manual on how to be likable, but you didn't get it. And they all sold out now. And if you are what you eat, then you must have surely spent the last few years of your life eating dog food and cat shit. Because when you look in the mirror, it is all that you see.
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Heather O'Neill _ Lullabies for Little Criminals
He said that if you were able to look at the crows really closely, you would see that their eyes were stolen baubles, like buttons or marbles.To get real eyes, they had to steal them from children. Older people's eyes were too set in their ways of looking and would be no good for a crow. That's why people don't let their children out after dark. The crow who stole the eyes of a real child was king. With a piece of plastic they could just see what was in front of them, but with a child's eyes, they could see the whole world.
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Heather O'Neill _ The Lonely Hearts Hotel
A girl's desire is like a pretty butterfly. And a man's desire is like a butterfly net. His desire captures and kills her. He turns her into an object to be pinned on a corkboard. I don't think I'm interested in the tyranny of the couple. I'm more interested in what a person does when they're forced to be by themselves.
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Heather O'Neill _ The Girl Who Was Saturday
Mothers took your problems from you and fretted about them for you, even if there was no reason on earth why they should, even if you had done everything to create your own mess.
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Heather O'Neill _ Lullabies for Little Criminals
What the hell is that?" he asked."Magic mushrooms.""I've always wanted to try those," he exclaimed. "They sound so cute.
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Heather O'Neill _ The Lonely Hearts Hotel
Why had this good-looking moll chosen this effeminate buffoon, they all wanted to know. But Jimmy understood why immediately. Because he allowed her to be free.
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