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Heather O'Neill Quote: “They took turns looking deep, deep into the universe: Saturn like a knee that had been dipped in iodine, Neptune like a peach covered in mold, Jupiter like a half sucked jawbreaker, Mercury like a large shooter marble, galaxies like crushed candy, galaxies like the suds from a bubble bath blown off the palm of your hand.”

101. “They took turns looking deep, deep into the universe: Saturn like a knee that had been dipped in iodine, Neptune like a peach covered in mold, Jupiter like a half sucked jawbreaker, Mercury like a large shooter marble, galaxies like crushed candy, galaxies like the suds from a bubble bath blown off the palm of your hand.”

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Heather O'Neill Quote: “The moon was full. It looked like a breast engorged with milk because of all the babies crying in the night.”

102. “The moon was full. It looked like a breast engorged with milk because of all the babies crying in the night.”

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Heather O'Neill Quote: “Love was a paltry, meek thing; it was guilt that spoke in such operatic statements.”

103. “Love was a paltry, meek thing; it was guilt that spoke in such operatic statements.”

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Heather O'Neill Quote: “A woman’s freedom is the most important thing in the world. It is the end that justifies all means. One day you will figure out how to be free.”

104. “A woman’s freedom is the most important thing in the world. It is the end that justifies all means. One day you will figure out how to be free.”

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Heather O'Neill Quote: “Her heart leaped like a frog out of a child’s fist.”

105. “Her heart leaped like a frog out of a child’s fist.”

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Heather O'Neill Quote: “They had this angry look about them, as if they had been falling off swings all day.”

106. “They had this angry look about them, as if they had been falling off swings all day.”

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Heather O'Neill Quote: “You become the closest approximation of yourself that can tolerate living there.”

107. “You become the closest approximation of yourself that can tolerate living there.”

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Heather O'Neill Quote: “There is nothing as frustrating as being consumed with rage over someone and knowing that you aren’t even on their mind. You want your enemy to be engaged in a struggle until the death with you. Otherwise you are fighting yourself. I mean we are all essentially only in wars against ourselves, but we don’t like it to be so painfully obvious.”

108. “There is nothing as frustrating as being consumed with rage over someone and knowing that you aren’t even on their mind. You want your enemy to be engaged in a struggle until the death with you. Otherwise you are fighting yourself. I mean we are all essentially only in wars against ourselves, but we don’t like it to be so painfully obvious.”

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Heather O'Neill Quote: “People became free in literature first. It was through books that new ideas entered the general population.”

109. “People became free in literature first. It was through books that new ideas entered the general population.”

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Heather O'Neill Quote: “That was perhaps a definition of innocence: not knowing what one was capable of.”

110. “That was perhaps a definition of innocence: not knowing what one was capable of.”

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Heather O'Neill Quote: “Board games were invented to keep people from thinking so they won’t plan a revolution.”

111. “Board games were invented to keep people from thinking so they won’t plan a revolution.”

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Heather O'Neill Quote: “I had to admit that I had a strong tendency to date jokers. I couldn’t say no to them. I would sit across from someone I was dating and try to imagine who in the entire world would date this nimrod other than me. But I always had to have a boyfriend. They distracted me from being sad. They baffled me with their stupidity. I refused to believe that finding love was difficult.”

112. “I had to admit that I had a strong tendency to date jokers. I couldn’t say no to them. I would sit across from someone I was dating and try to imagine who in the entire world would date this nimrod other than me. But I always had to have a boyfriend. They distracted me from being sad. They baffled me with their stupidity. I refused to believe that finding love was difficult.”

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Heather O'Neill Quote: “The girls were playing in the labyrinth in Marie’s garden one afternoon when they declared their love for each other. Every declaration of love is a magic incantation. It casts a spell on your future.”

113. “The girls were playing in the labyrinth in Marie’s garden one afternoon when they declared their love for each other. Every declaration of love is a magic incantation. It casts a spell on your future.”

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Heather O'Neill Quote: “At night the monsters under the beds begged him to come make love to them.”

114. “At night the monsters under the beds begged him to come make love to them.”

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Heather O'Neill Quote: “There was a pervasive idea that girls were all on the brink of madness. It took much less than anyone had previously believed to push a girl over the edge. A single novel could do it. A complicated idea could do it.”

115. “There was a pervasive idea that girls were all on the brink of madness. It took much less than anyone had previously believed to push a girl over the edge. A single novel could do it. A complicated idea could do it.”

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Heather O'Neill Quote: “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.”

116. “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.”

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Heather O'Neill Quote: “Drug dealers wouldn’t want to have anything to do with these pathetic specimens. You had to be relaxed and professional to associate with drug dealers.”

117. “Drug dealers wouldn’t want to have anything to do with these pathetic specimens. You had to be relaxed and professional to associate with drug dealers.”

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Heather O'Neill Quote: “Her words squiggled onto the page like the laces of a girl running for her life with untied boots.”

118. “Her words squiggled onto the page like the laces of a girl running for her life with untied boots.”

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Heather O'Neill Quote: “There was a way that you could sleep properly when a house had been straightened up, when all the Ranger Ricks were put up on the shelf and the toys were put in the plastic box and tomorrow’s clothes were laid out neatly on a chair. But then again, when everything was left out all over the floor and the dishes were still in the sink, there was a way that you could dream.”

119. “There was a way that you could sleep properly when a house had been straightened up, when all the Ranger Ricks were put up on the shelf and the toys were put in the plastic box and tomorrow’s clothes were laid out neatly on a chair. But then again, when everything was left out all over the floor and the dishes were still in the sink, there was a way that you could dream.”

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Heather O'Neill Quote: “The world is terrified of a certain type of monstrous woman. That’s why they invented these ideas of ugly and beautiful. They say we are beautiful now because we are young and stupid. But the more we accomplish and have to say, the uglier we are described as being... Perhaps Mary Shelly is her mother’s monster.”

120. “The world is terrified of a certain type of monstrous woman. That’s why they invented these ideas of ugly and beautiful. They say we are beautiful now because we are young and stupid. But the more we accomplish and have to say, the uglier we are described as being... Perhaps Mary Shelly is her mother’s monster.”

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Heather O'Neill Quote: “Loving everyone is the same thing as loving nobody at.”

121. “Loving everyone is the same thing as loving nobody at.”

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