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Top 80 Barbara O'Neal Quotes (2024 Update)

Barbara O'Neal Quote: “That isn’t who you are. You’re afraid. And you cannot have a life of great meaning if you make decisions out of fear.”
Barbara O'Neal Quote: “Resistance will break you. Kill you. The only way to survive is to let go.”
Barbara O'Neal Quote: “A girl without a mother who protects her is a girl at the mercy of the world.”
Barbara O'Neal Quote: “Honey is a magic elixir – made from the tiny drops of nectar taken from hearts of flowers, carried by little bee feet to a secret cave where it is transformed by time into thick gold sweetness.”
Barbara O'Neal Quote: “There are seasons of darkness, yes? Loss and sadness all around.” He tightens his grip. “But if you are patient, the circle turns, and then there is happiness all around, everything good, everyone happy.” He flings a hand out, palm up, as if scattering glitter. “My friend, he just forgot that happiness is part of living too.”
Barbara O'Neal Quote: “I have a million questions, but they’ll be so much easier to answer if I don’t have to answer them alone.”
Barbara O'Neal Quote: “You couldn’t unsee a thing once it was seen, unknow it once it was known.”
Barbara O'Neal Quote: “Your quest is powerful. You needn’t apologize for the space it takes.”
Barbara O'Neal Quote: “When I saw you, I recognized you, like I’ve been waiting, all this time, for you to show up. And there you were.”
Barbara O'Neal Quote: “Vermicelli alla siracusana.”
Barbara O'Neal Quote: “There are seasons of darkness, yes? Loss and sadness all around.” He tightens his grip. “But if you are patient, the circle turns, and then there is happiness all around, everything good, everyone happy.”
Barbara O'Neal Quote: “A passion is a good way to get through something.”
Barbara O'Neal Quote: “A lifetime of secrets and lies later, I drive through the dark back to my neighborhood.”
Barbara O'Neal Quote: “I’ve carried a torch of hatred for my mother for so long now that it’s hard to even see beyond the straw woman I’ve made of her.”
Barbara O'Neal Quote: “It was as if their feet ran on parallel train tracks and pulled in at the same stations at the same time, over and over.”
Barbara O'Neal Quote: “I think of my admission that I haven’t had much happiness, and it suddenly seems ridiculous. What am I waiting for?”
Barbara O'Neal Quote: “He sat across from her and took her small hands in his own. “Babe, you don’t have to carry the world. I’ve got it, okay?”
Barbara O'Neal Quote: “A line of Shakespeare, lodged in my head from one of the only classes I ever attended regularly in high school, runs through my mind: “Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move, Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.”
Barbara O'Neal Quote: “I do know that it’s hard to be the children of parents who are obsessed with each other.”
Barbara O'Neal Quote: “Life had washed me here on this strange errand. Maybe the best thing to do was to just let it show me what it had in mind.”
Barbara O'Neal Quote: “Life is always a mixed bag.”
Barbara O'Neal Quote: “Sleep is my superpower.”
Barbara O'Neal Quote: “Every girl needs a mother who protects her with a savage fury.”
Barbara O'Neal Quote: “Lost girls. I’d found them everywhere, all over the world, all longing for hope, for love, for an answer to their hungers in a world that did not honor them.”
Barbara O'Neal Quote: “I remember when my sister and I thought there were jewels in the ocean, dancing on top of each swell.”
Barbara O'Neal Quote: “We drank hot chocolate and sat on the beach in our finery, and we were mermaids with our mermaid mother.”
Barbara O'Neal Quote: “In Spanish, we say alma gemela. Soul twin.”
Barbara O'Neal Quote: “The great tragedy of aging is not the loss of the supple body but the illusions we are forced to leave behind, one after the other, like a string of pearls from a necklace. That all will be well, that dreams can come true, that we can always do what we wish, that sacrifice and sorrow are not inevitable.”
Barbara O'Neal Quote: “I like to read. I just don’t like to work hard to read. I like books that take me away the same way television or the movies do.”
Barbara O'Neal Quote: “Not for the millions and millions of people who are also plagued with this addictive thing in a world where it’s perfectly normal to drink, and keep drinking, and laugh about going overboard and even blacking out, and make Mommy-wine memes about the stresses of parenthood driving you to the bottle, and you have to explain why you don’t drink rather than why you do. If people quit smoking, the world says, “Oh hey, good for you.” If you quit drinking, they peer at you and say, “Why?”
Barbara O'Neal Quote: “I took myself back, made myself over, became a woman I am proud of.”
Barbara O'Neal Quote: “The great tragedy of aging is not the loss of the supple body but the illusions we are forced to leave behind, one after the other, like a string of pearls from a necklace.”
Barbara O'Neal Quote: “Now that I know the truth about his childhood, our deep connection makes all the more sense. We were both lost children, and came together to make sure our girls were not lost. We might have had a lot of flaws, the two of us, but we gave our.”
Barbara O'Neal Quote: “I suddenly wish that I could sit with him like this many times, over many years. I can almost see a ghostly version of us, sitting in this same place, a decade or two out. His hair will silver by then, but those long lashes will still frame his lovely dark eyes, and he will still eat like this, reverently.”
Barbara O'Neal Quote: “But my dad told me a long time ago that the reason a lot of people fall on their faces is because they can’t handle big things without booze or drugs. You have to figure out how you can face things that hurt or burn or even make you really happy.”
Barbara O'Neal Quote: “Do you want to know the secret of my transformation?” “Yes, please,” I whisper. “I learned to play guitar.” “And sing.” He nods. “And sing. And then, it was like a magic spell. I could sing and play, and nobody called me the little blind pig anymore.”
Barbara O'Neal Quote: “I sometimes wondered if I’d wasted my entire life on a quixotic quest. Had I done anyone any good, ever? Dark thoughts indeed.”
Barbara O'Neal Quote: “Bookstores can solve any problem, at least for a little while.”
Barbara O'Neal Quote: “We’re all broken, says my therapist’s voice. I somehow have always felt more broken than most, but maybe that’s not actually true. Keep your head where your feet are.”
Barbara O'Neal Quote: “Over the years, she’s created an urbane but kind shell that lets little of her true self leak through.”
Barbara O'Neal Quote: “If you let people into the secrets of your life, the worst of it will always be at the forefront of their minds.”
Barbara O'Neal Quote: “It fades relatively quickly, just a flash and gone. All these years, you’d think I’d finally get over the PTSD. But it doesn’t seem to work like that. My therapist says I spent so much time drinking and drugging away my trauma that it’s just going to take a long time to work through it all. And even she knows only the tip of the iceberg.”
Barbara O'Neal Quote: “Because we spent so much time in the sun, we were tanned as dark as varnished cedar, and if he was the most beautiful boy on the beach, I was growing into the most beautiful girl.”
Barbara O'Neal Quote: “Love is not always destructive,” he says quietly, and slides a finger up my shin. “Sometimes love creates.”
Barbara O'Neal Quote: “Maybe I don’t have to choose between Dylan as a villain and Dylan as my beloved hero. Maybe he was both. Maybe Josie was – is – both too. Heroine and villain. Maybe we all are.”
Barbara O'Neal Quote: “Only people without the kind of wounds she and I carried think you need to live it all over again. Not everything can be forgiven. Not everything can be healed.”
Barbara O'Neal Quote: “The truth is, when I arrived here, I was exhausted from years of foster homes, where I had to stay on my toes, then scrambling through undergrad, then grad school, trying to figure out how to make a name for myself, make a mark. Survival takes a lot of work if you’re an orphan woman in America.”
Barbara O'Neal Quote: “I know how much the ordinary dumb people of the world annoy me, so it’s hard to imagine how much worse it would be if you thought at the speed of light and everyone else thought at the speed of a tricycle.”
Barbara O'Neal Quote: “Jandals,” I repeat. “Like sandals?” “Japanese sandals.”
Barbara O'Neal Quote: “The Mermaid Song”: “We there did espy a fair pretty maid, With a comb and a glass in her hand, her hand, her hand, With a comb and a glass in her hand.”
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