Top 80 Barbara O'Neal Quotes (2024 Update)
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Barbara O'Neal Quote: “I have never really been able to fully warm up, as is often true of the children of alcoholics after so many years of neglect, I.”

51. “I have never really been able to fully warm up, as is often true of the children of alcoholics after so many years of neglect, I.”

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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.”

52. “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.”

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Barbara O'Neal Quote: “I take a breath, think of those days, and again find myself telling him the truth. Maybe it’s him, or maybe it’s just time to tell someone.”

53. “I take a breath, think of those days, and again find myself telling him the truth. Maybe it’s him, or maybe it’s just time to tell someone.”

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Barbara O'Neal Quote: “Only you know what your boundaries are, Maya. You have to find them.”

54. “Only you know what your boundaries are, Maya. You have to find them.”

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Barbara O'Neal Quote: “For a moment, I look at all the disasters happening around the world, and my drama seems ridiculous and small, all of my own doing. But it’s not about comparison, as my counselor used to say. My pain is my pain.”

55. “For a moment, I look at all the disasters happening around the world, and my drama seems ridiculous and small, all of my own doing. But it’s not about comparison, as my counselor used to say. My pain is my pain.”

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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.”

56. “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.”

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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.”

57. “I sometimes wondered if I’d wasted my entire life on a quixotic quest. Had I done anyone any good, ever? Dark thoughts indeed.”

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Barbara O'Neal Quote: “With adulthood comes discipline, however, so I give the ice cream my full attention, aware that I’m using food to soothe my aching heart and not caring a bit.”

58. “With adulthood comes discipline, however, so I give the ice cream my full attention, aware that I’m using food to soothe my aching heart and not caring a bit.”

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Barbara O'Neal Quote: “At this point, I have more pens and ink than I could possibly use in three lifetimes, but that’s not the point.”

59. “At this point, I have more pens and ink than I could possibly use in three lifetimes, but that’s not the point.”

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Barbara O'Neal Quote: “I don’t bring podcasts or music with me. I want to hear whatever the earth has to tell me.”

60. “I don’t bring podcasts or music with me. I want to hear whatever the earth has to tell me.”

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Barbara O'Neal Quote: “And that’s all there is to say. I bend over and let myself grieve him, grieve the time I lost not speaking to him. I let go of all the things he should have been, and allow myself to love the things he was.”

61. “And that’s all there is to say. I bend over and let myself grieve him, grieve the time I lost not speaking to him. I let go of all the things he should have been, and allow myself to love the things he was.”

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Barbara O'Neal Quote: “For a faint, foolish moment, I wonder if she is looking toward me too, across time, across the miles, somehow sensing that I am still alive.”

62. “For a faint, foolish moment, I wonder if she is looking toward me too, across time, across the miles, somehow sensing that I am still alive.”

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Barbara O'Neal Quote: “One of the things I love about Hobo is that he is company at night, curling up against the crook of my knees or creeping onto my pillow to rest his face against my head, as if we are two cats. I ache for him at those moments, and I.”

63. “One of the things I love about Hobo is that he is company at night, curling up against the crook of my knees or creeping onto my pillow to rest his face against my head, as if we are two cats. I ache for him at those moments, and I.”

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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.”

64. “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.”

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Barbara O'Neal Quote: “My marriage was long ago. It’s to me like a story I read once.”

65. “My marriage was long ago. It’s to me like a story I read once.”

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Barbara O'Neal Quote: “In Spanish, we say alma gemela. Soul twin.”

66. “In Spanish, we say alma gemela. Soul twin.”

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Barbara O'Neal Quote: “She was the worst mother of all time. She was the best mother of all time.”

67. “She was the worst mother of all time. She was the best mother of all time.”

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Barbara O'Neal Quote: “Of course I’ll miss him. We can stay in touch through email, and in a few weeks, we’ll forget the urgency of now.”

68. “Of course I’ll miss him. We can stay in touch through email, and in a few weeks, we’ll forget the urgency of now.”

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Barbara O'Neal Quote: “Damn, Josie. How did you get so bad?” She lets go of a sad, short laugh. “A day at a time.”

69. “Damn, Josie. How did you get so bad?” She lets go of a sad, short laugh. “A day at a time.”

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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.”

70. “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.”

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Barbara O'Neal Quote: “As naturally as if we’ve been together a hundred years, Javier picks up my hand and laces his fingers through mine. And even though it’s a little sweaty and I’m not really the hand-holding type, I let him.”

71. “As naturally as if we’ve been together a hundred years, Javier picks up my hand and laces his fingers through mine. And even though it’s a little sweaty and I’m not really the hand-holding type, I let him.”

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Barbara O'Neal Quote: “The human body is a delicate, amazing creation. It takes almost nothing to completely destroy it, and yet it takes a lot. Most of us manage to stay on the planet, in our bodies, for seventy or eighty years, all of us amassing scars along the way, each one with a story.”

72. “The human body is a delicate, amazing creation. It takes almost nothing to completely destroy it, and yet it takes a lot. Most of us manage to stay on the planet, in our bodies, for seventy or eighty years, all of us amassing scars along the way, each one with a story.”

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Barbara O'Neal Quote: “Jandals,” I repeat. “Like sandals?” “Japanese sandals.”

73. “Jandals,” I repeat. “Like sandals?” “Japanese sandals.”

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Barbara O'Neal Quote: “It is absolutely love. For me, certainly.”

74. “It is absolutely love. For me, certainly.”

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Barbara O'Neal Quote: “The only things I’d ever really wanted – peace, calm, predictability. My childhood had been drama enough for one life.”

75. “The only things I’d ever really wanted – peace, calm, predictability. My childhood had been drama enough for one life.”

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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.”

76. “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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Barbara O'Neal Quote: “I took myself back, made myself over, became a woman I am proud of.”

77. “I took myself back, made myself over, became a woman I am proud of.”

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Barbara O'Neal Quote: “My gift has always been an ability to be happy. It sounds small until you live in the world for a while.”

78. “My gift has always been an ability to be happy. It sounds small until you live in the world for a while.”

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Barbara O'Neal Quote: “I’d love that.” Instead of rushing in with questions or comments, she waits for me to keep talking, a listening trick she learned at AA that would have made my childhood ten thousand times better.”

79. “I’d love that.” Instead of rushing in with questions or comments, she waits for me to keep talking, a listening trick she learned at AA that would have made my childhood ten thousand times better.”

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Barbara O'Neal Quote: “Many things, but I have learned to just carry one book, or my bag starts to weigh too much for me to lift!”

80. “Many things, but I have learned to just carry one book, or my bag starts to weigh too much for me to lift!”

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Barbara O'Neal Quote: “Oh, I do not want to like him so much. Lust, yes. Not like. I don’t know him at all, but in this gesture I feel the heart of a lion, big and inclusive and wise. It tips open the closed doors of my life.”

81. “Oh, I do not want to like him so much. Lust, yes. Not like. I don’t know him at all, but in this gesture I feel the heart of a lion, big and inclusive and wise. It tips open the closed doors of my life.”

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Barbara O'Neal Quote: “That is a little happy. Not big, not the kind that fills you up and makes you want to laugh.”

82. “That is a little happy. Not big, not the kind that fills you up and makes you want to laugh.”

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Barbara O'Neal Quote: “When you leaped over the railing, my heart squeezed so hard I could not breathe, because what if” – now he touches my ear, my temple, my wet hair, and pulls me closer – “what if I had lost the chance?”

83. “When you leaped over the railing, my heart squeezed so hard I could not breathe, because what if” – now he touches my ear, my temple, my wet hair, and pulls me closer – “what if I had lost the chance?”

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Barbara O'Neal Quote: “Resistance will break you. Kill you. The only way to survive is to let go. The world swirls, up and down, around, for endless moments.”

84. “Resistance will break you. Kill you. The only way to survive is to let go. The world swirls, up and down, around, for endless moments.”

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