Top 100 Heather O'reilly Quotes
#1. I turned to the page on decorated buttons and tried to ponder their beauty instead of my own loneliness, trying to will myself into being a sociopath.
Heather O'Neill
#2. You can't let the highs get too high and you can't let the lows get too low.
Heather O'Reilly
#3. 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
#4. 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.
Heather O'Neill
#6. The Law-of-Destination is straightforward and simple: It is not possible to arrive where we never take the time to go.
Heather K. O'Hara
#7. My dad had told me that if you stayed out after nine and you were a girl it meant that you wanted to have sex with whoever was passing by. He told me that if I got raped after nine o'clock the courts would probably say I deserved it.
Heather O'Neill
#8. What whispers from the center of the soul is an innocence - so loving, so pure, so divine - that the sage bows and the wise man weeps at the sound of its soft singing.
Heather K. O'Hara
#9. When she said sweet things in my ear, it would slide right down into my heart
Heather O'Neill
#10. His adolescents are displaced aristocrats who have lost their kingdom and wealth, which was childhood. [On J.D. Salinger]
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#14. 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.
Heather O'Neill
#15. He always had to act in an obnoxiously idiosyncratic way.
Heather O'Neill
#16. Celebrate one soul, touch one heart, light one lamp; and the whole universe moves.
Heather K. O'Hara
#18. The real first kiss is the one that tells you what it feels like to be an adult and doesn't let you be a child anymore. The first kiss is the one that you suffer the consequences of. It was as if I had been playing Russian roulette and finally got the cylinder with the bullet in it.
Heather O'Neill
#19. 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.
Heather O'Neill
#20. Perhaps the most dangerous people in the world are the ones who believe in right and wrong but what they ascribe to as "right" and "wrong" is completely insane. They are bad with the conviction that they are good. That idea is the impetus behind evil.
Heather O'Neill
#21. When I thought about my old friends Linus Lucas and Theo, I realized they were not really criminals either. They were like me. We were just acting out the strangest, tragic little roles, pretending to be criminals in order to get by. We gave very convincing performances.
Heather O'Neill
#22. 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.
Heather O'Neill
#23. The ground was silvery, as if some stars had fallen there.
Heather O'Neill
#24. Life is its own occasion; it does not need a reason to celebrate itself.
Heather K. O'Hara
#26. 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.
Heather O'Neill
#27. Coaches will eventually notice a great attitude, and they respect that.
Heather O'Reilly
#28. Everything written by any woman was written by all women, because they all benefited from it. If one woman was a genius, it was proof that it was possible for the rest of them.
Heather O'Neill
#29. We had started thinking of ourselves not in terms of things that we had done, but in terms of what we were going to do.
Heather O'Neill
#30. You came out of prison incredibly buff or with an addiction to paperback novels.
Heather O'Neill
#31. Our journey has taken 21 players but our goal is still the same, to win the World Cup.
Heather O'Reilly
#32. A cat peeped in the window. It had one white paw. One night it had decided to dip it into the reflection of the moon in a fountain to see what would happen.
Heather O'Neill
#33. But although she interacted with so many people during the day, no one could actually say that they were close to her. There is an aloofness to the permanently heartbroken, a secrecy. There was something impenetrable about her. There was a door that she had closed, which no one could get in.
Heather O'Neill
#34. Adolescents are still children in that they can't yet tell the difference between make believe and fiction.
Heather O'Neill
#35. I closed my eyes and the roof was gone. I could see the stars while the piano tinkled. I could see Jupiter and it was blue, and Neptune was silver like a tennis ball sprayed silver. I could reach out and touch it, like cold water.
Heather O'Neill
#36. Love is giving the people ye love what is best for them, Bav, no' what is best for ye. It doesna matter if it rips yer heart out by the roots first. Ye've never learned tha', no' in yer thousand thousands of years, and ye never will.
Heather R. Blair
#37. What I know is nothing but that we are a spring path of autumn light carved into a river of ancient singing.
Heather K. O'Hara
#38. I was trying my best to straighten out my life, but I always ended up in the middle of some festive waste of time.
Heather O'Neill
#39. A suspension program like TRX provides consistency, is great for strength training, and you can do it anywhere, which is good for us because we're always on the go!
Heather O'Reilly
#40. I hope people enjoy what I do. That would make me happy because I'd be bringing others pleasure while doing something I like.
Heather O'Rourke
#41. 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
#42. It's always interesting to be playing against some of my best friends and some of my longtime teammates. You get to see them before the game and after the game and it's always nice to catch up but when the whistle blows it's sort of all business on the field.
Heather O'Reilly
#43. At least for soccer players, it comes down to a blend of two types of fitness - your base endurance, which comes from longer distance running, and your speed, which comes from sprint-based workouts.
Heather O'Reilly
#44. The cat looked at its paws and frantically back at its body, as if it had just been transformed into a cat and couldn't accept it.
Heather O'Neill
#45. 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.
Heather O'Neill
#46. You see only the beautiful things when you stand still. You only see things that you don't ordinarily notice. The birds are the prettiest things, I imagine.
Heather O'Neill
#47. A lot of children grow up in poverty with flawed parents, but their inner world is still as inherently filled with wonder and innocence as children who are kept away from the city's underbelly.
Heather O'Neill
#48. 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
#50. 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.
Heather O'Neill
#51. What the hell is that?" he asked.
"Magic mushrooms."
"I've always wanted to try those," he exclaimed. "They sound so cute.
Heather O'Neill
#52. A beige cat came down the stairs like caramel seeping out of a Caramilk bar.
Heather O'Neill
#53. 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.
Heather O'Neill
#54. After getting glasses and contacts it was kind of a wow moment that I could definitely see better and on the soccer field it really helped me.
Heather O'Reilly
#55. My Panasonic typewriter can make graphs. It types in four different colors.
Heather O'Rourke
#56. It was terrifying to have the responsibility of living in a world that was filled with so much wonder.
Heather O'Neill
#57. Jules and I were tiny people. We were delicate. We were almost destroyed. We were vulnerable. Like nerds in a school yard of bullies, we could have traded our stamps and cards of extinct animals. That's the kind of people we would be if our situation were different.
Heather O'Neill
#58. We each bring our own unique beauty to the world, and how blessed we are to have the freedom to find that beauty in each other.
Heather K. O'Hara
#61. Musical cherub, soar, singing, away! Then, when the gloaming comes, Low in the heather blooms Sweet will thy welcome and bed of love be! Emblem of happiness, Blest is thy dwelling-place O, to abide in the desert with thee!
James Hogg
#62. 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.
Heather O'Neill
#63. A cat's tail waved above the arm of the couch like an elegant hand in a black glove waving goodbye.
Heather O'Neill
#64. Those who lead us to our sacred selves walk not before us, but beside.
Heather K. O'Hara
#65. They don't know. It's not their fault. What are they supposed to do when they've been told their whole lives not to believe in fairy tales?
Heather O'Neill
#66. 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.
Heather O'Neill
#67. She was as secure as a sixty-year-old woman whose husband has never cheated on her.
Heather O'Neill
#68. They tried to look punk but came off looking more like cats with mange. Just
Heather O'Neill
#69. You should beware of motherless children. They will eat you alive. You will never be loved by anyone the way that you will be loved by a motherless child.
Heather O'Neill
#70. Love is a big and wonderful idea, but life is made up of small things. As a kid, you have nothing to do with the way the world is run; you just have to hurry to catch up with it.
Heather O'Neill
#71. In Moscow there were a hundred different words for sadness, and one of them was joy.
Heather O'Neill
#72. I have an artistic temperament, which is a really tragic thing.
Heather O'Neill
#74. 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
#75. Becoming a child again is what is impossible. That's what you have a legitimate reason to be upset over. Childhood is the most valuable thing that's taken away from you in life, if you think about it.
Heather O'Neill
#76. God knows who we became when we masturbated. It was like our desire was a spirit that possessed us and took over.
Heather O'Neill
#77. You never loved me, Farin. You never even said you liked me very much.
Heather O'Brien
#78. The smallest a family can be is two members, and that was Jules and me.
Heather O'Neill
#79. Oh, we had a lot of sex back then in Montreal; it wasn't just me. Blame it on the cold. The roses in everyone's cheeks made them seem way more appealing than they actually were. We confused the indoors with intimacy and electric heating with connection.
Heather O'Neill
#80. My conversation is probably something like the rain. On some days it pours, and then on other days there's just a clear sky- not a word in sight.
Heather O'Neill
#82. We were broke in a way that only kids can be broke. Our toes were black with dye from wearing boots that weren't waterproof. We had infected ear lobes and green rings around our fingers from cheap jewelry. No one ever even had a chocolate bar.
Heather O'Neill
#84. Linus Lucas was fourteen years old, a number that made the spoons fall right out of our mouths.
Heather O'Neill
#85. There was a dark aura about him, a hint of caged power in that deceptively casual, sprawled poise. Danger personified.
If this had been a film she would have expected to hear the warning wail of an electric guitar creep over the soft background bustle of the city.
Heather R. Blair
#86. I've won some pretty cool things in my life and I have a lot of great titles.
Heather O'Reilly
#87. In the very beginning whenever Mia Hamm or Brandi Chastain would call for the ball, I'd just give it to them immediately because it was them and I was nervous.
Heather O'Reilly
#88. In the temporary illumination of the headlights, the insects were scribbling out messages from God that we couldn't get.
Heather O'Neill
#89. I keep a journal, and every day I write down one great play that I had that day. I don't write down any negatives.
Heather O'Reilly
#90. Women aren't mean the way that men are. They're full of life and they're like God in that way.
Heather O'Neill
#91. Tell me you aren't crying. My whole image of you as a bad-ass warrior is crumbling.
Heather R. Blair
#92. The home is the most ritualized place in a society; each house is like a religious order with its own ceremonies.
Heather O'Neill
#93. I had a ludicrous childhood, but I feel that I was able to profit from a lot of the idiotic and unfortunate things that happened to me by turning them into fiction.
Heather O'Neill
#94. Whenever things were going well, I started to feel vain.
Heather O'Neill
#95. 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.
Heather O'Neill
#96. There is a time when the soul closes its eyes and kneels before its own divinity; and a time when it rises and looks out in wonder at the beauty of the world.
Heather K. O'Hara
#97. I didn't know how he managed to keep the weight of his secret when the burden of it was crushing me.
Heather O'Neill
#98. I think that a lot of players and a lot of teams don't think of contact lenses as being a part of that essential gear but it truly is. You want every competitive advantage you can find and obviously having great vision is one of those advantages.
Heather O'Reilly
#99. If there was one thing responsible for ruining lives, it was love.
Heather O'Neill
#100. My parents put everything in a trust fund for me. I won't get it until I'm 18, so I'll use it for college.
Heather O'Rourke
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