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Category: Heather O’Neill

Heather O'Neill

The ground was silvery, as if some stars had fallen there.

childhood, memories

Heather O'Neill

You feel as if everybody has been given an instruction manual on how to be likable, but you didn’t get it. And they are 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.

feeling-down, feelings, life

Heather O'Neill

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.

Heather O'Neill

Childhood is the most valuable thing that’s taken away from you in life, if you think about it.

Heather O'Neill

Adam was charming and spoke perfect French. Like many anglophones in Montréal, he actually spoke French better than we did. They knew exactly which verbs to use in the same way that people knew which utensils to use while eating at a fancy dinner. It was very proper because they learned it from books. They didn’t know slang or how to curse. They didn’t know how to do anything other than be proper and reserved. It was state-sponsored, dry-clean-only French.

french, language

Heather O'Neill

That was desire messing with physics: putting its finger on the record and then slowing it down, making sure you heard every word spoken, and memorized it.

desire, desires-and-dreams, love, memorize, physics, present-moment, record, slow-down

Heather O'Neill

Intimacy makes you feel unique. Intimacy makes you feel as though you have been singled out, that someone in the world believes you have special qualities that nobody else has.

intimacy, intimate, intimate-moments, intimate-quotes, love, special, unique

Heather O'Neill

I was always moved when mean people were suddenly nice to me. It was a weakness that would lead me into some bad relationships later in life.

awful, bad, canada, life, love, montréal, pg-76, relationships, thirteen, weakness

Heather O'Neill

It might seem like the easier way to get rid of a poet would be just to take him out to the backyard, have him kneel between the cans with tomato plants in them and put a bullet in his brain. But they knew from history that it doesn’t work to kill a writer. Every time you shoot a poet,a dozen new ones are born. It’s like plucking a grey hair.

Heather O'Neill

I’ve been all over the place in all kinds of living situations. Due to the fact that my mind is my own worst enemy. In a way I am perpetually and permanently in a state of rehabilitation m in an attempt to rehabilitate from the shock of being born.Some people are too sensitive to withstand that.

canada, drug-addiction, drugs, hobo, homeless, jean-michel, life, montréal, pg-81, street

Heather O'Neill

What the hell is that?” he asked.”Magic mushrooms.””I’ve always wanted to try those,” he exclaimed. “They sound so cute.

addiction, addicts, drug-addiction, drugs, felix, foster-care, orphan, pg-85

Heather O'Neill

Women aren’t mean the way that men are. They’re full of life and they’re like God in that way.

abuse, femimism, god, religion, women