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121 " Her words squiggled onto the page like the laces of a girl running for her life with untied boots. "
― Heather O'Neill , When We Lost Our Heads
122 " as sad things can also have other sides, miraculous ones. If you don’t feel sadness, there are types of happiness and compassion and torture and insight you will never know. Sadness has all sorts of truths that allow you to experience joy. "
― Heather O'Neill , The Lonely Hearts Hotel
123 " At dusk Pierrot found Rose sitting on a bench, facing the river. She was having morbid thoughts. She was descended from people who had come to this great land, killed off its inhabitants and settled in with their treacherous ways. Did you have a right to expect anything from God if you were white and North American ? "
124 " 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. "
― Heather O'Neill , Lullabies for Little Criminals
125 " BUT ALTHOUGH he was paying for her whole life, McMahon still wasn’t sure whether he truly possessed her. To make certain that he did, he tried to make Rose miserable. This was the only real proof that a woman belonged to you. Anybody could make a girl happy. It was only when a girl was in love with a man that he could ruin her self-esteem. He knew he would have to get around to that. He only had her for now. "
126 " He said that when you are in love with someone, you want to follow them to the bathroom. He said love just makes you pathetic. "
127 " Love is a big and wonderful idea, but life is made up of small things. "
128 " What are they supposed to do when they've been told their whole lives not to believe in fairy tales? "
― Heather O'Neill , Daydreams of Angels
129 " The home is the most ritualized place in a society; each house is like a religious order with its own ceremonies. "
130 " We only really need one of a good thing "
131 " Scientists could make a human, but they could not make an artist. "
― Heather O'Neill , The Girl Who Was Saturday Night
132 " Loving everyone is the same thing as loving nobody at. "
133 " It was terrifying to have the responsibility of living in a world that was filled with so much wonder. "
134 " Zwölf ist ein wunderschönes und bemerkenswertes Alter; um diese Zeit fangen Kinder an, große Töne zu spucken und zu überlegen, wie sie es allein schaffen könnten: genau wie Engel, unmittelbar bevor sie aus dem Himmel vertrieben werden. Sie haben solch unschuldige und gefährliche Ideen. "
135 " Love should make you feel ten feet tall. "
136 " 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. "
137 " Being judged by society makes you disregard it altogether after a while. Jean-Michel didn’t know that he shouldn’t get a twelve-year-old drugs. He didn’t even really know what a twelve-year-old was. "
138 " He was and probably still is, to this day, the worst-smelling person I have ever hugged. But it was wonderful. He just wrapped his arms all the way around me. He hugged me the way that parents hug: with them doing all the work. "
139 " But she would never have set eyes on him or given him the time of day if he hadn't become filthy rich. His money had indeed bought him love. Given what he had seen of the world, the exchange of love for money seemed to be one of the commodities that never wavered - it was as dependable an investment as electricity. "
140 " There is nothing as frustrating as being consumed with rage over someone and knowing that you aren’t even on their mind. You want your enemy to be engaged in a struggle until the death with you. Otherwise you are fighting yourself. I mean we are all essentially only in wars against ourselves, but we don’t like it to be so painfully obvious. "