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61 " In the temporary illumination of the headlights, the insects were scribbling out messages from God that we couldn’t get. "
― Heather O'Neill , Lullabies for Little Criminals
62 " She liked the idea of being ruined. She was curious to see what would happen to her if no man would marry her. It seemed like the most likely way to have an adventure. "
― Heather O'Neill , The Lonely Hearts Hotel
63 " Fireflies danced around her like embers after someone has thrown a log into the stove. "
64 " You have to know that the life you have is completely yours "
― Heather O'Neill , The Girl Who Was Saturday Night
65 " Linus Lucas was fourteen years old, a number that made the spoons fall right out of our mouths. "
66 " The piano was just now telling me how it feels so odd when it rains. The rain can cause you to suddently feel guilty for all the tiny crimes you have committed, like not telling your friend that you love her. "
67 " She had fat arms, the type of arms that held sailors and soldiers and thieves. The kind of arms that held someone who was going away to jail for ten years. They were the arms of a woman who had eaten a hundred delicious cakes and pastries to get them this comfortable. "
68 " Men were taught to have so much pride, to go out into the world and make something of themselves. This Depression was deeply humiliating. Since women were taught that they were worthless, they took poverty and hardship less personally. "
69 " Whenever things were going well, I started to feel vain. "
70 " When I opened a book now, I was seized with desperation. I felt as if I was madly in love. It was as if I were in a confession booth and the characters in the book were on the other side telling me their most intimate secrets. When I read, I was a philosopher and it was up to me to figure out the meaning of things. Reading made me feel as if I were the center of the universe. "
71 " In Moscow there were a hundred different words for sadness, and one of them was joy. "
72 " There is 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. "
73 " He had intense gravitational force. He was like Saturn because Saturn has so many moons. If I kicked my shoes up in the air, they would go into orbit around him. "
74 " Pierrot knew that everything in the world was alive. Everything was composed of molecules that shook and vibrated and hummed. There was no such thing as permanence. Even the most stalwart object—such as a statue in the park—was struggling to keep itself together. "
75 " I was trying my best to straighten out my life, but I always ended up in the middle of some festive waste of time. "
76 " We confused the indoors with intimacy and electric heating with connection. Every night seemed like the last night because we would all freeze to death shortly. "
77 " There are things that are permissible in sex that aren’t permissible elsewhere. You can smack each other and tie one another up and pee on them and strangle them. That’s when love shows its face. When love takes off its clothes and has a drink. It sometimes takes the most appalling forms. It made the night seem like it was going to last forever. "
78 " A beige cat came down the stairs like caramel seeping out of a Caramilk bar. "
79 " The soft sound of the rain on the rooftop sounded like young girls sneaking off in stockings to elope. She felt lonesome for Pierrot. "
80 " A cat's tail waved above the arm of the couch like an elegant hand in a black glove waving goodbye. "