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 More Quotes by Heather O'Neill More Quotes From Heather O'Neill I have an artistic temperament, which is a really tragic thing. Heather O'Neill tragic temperament artistic 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 strange-places glasses kids The ground was silvery, as if some stars had fallen there. Heather O'Neill fallen stars ifs 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 lonely love-you children All writers have the idea that they are famous. Heather O'Neill ideas 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 causes choices years 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. Heather O'Neill weird street walking children
