Cadence

“When I opened a book now, I was seized with desperation. I felt as if I was madly in love. It was as if I were in a confession booth and the characters in the book were on the other side telling me their most intimate secrets. When I read, I was a philosopher and it was up to me to figure out the meaning of things. Reading made me feel as if I were the center of the universe.”
― Heather O'Neill, Lullabies for Little Criminals

“It made me sick to my stomach thinking about why I'd been slapped. Slapping is never a good thing, but there should at least be some sort of legitimate reason behind it, like an exclamation mark needs to follow an exclamatory sentence. I remembered the teacher who'd made fun of me for doing that. You can't just put an exclamatory sentence anywhere!”
― Heather O'Neill, Lullabies for Little Criminals

“All that children can hope for is that the adults who were around them would be kind. All they can do is beg for mercy.”
― Heather O'Neill, Lullabies for Little Criminals

“Needing to find reasons to live had forced me to build a life worth living.”
― Katherine Center, How to Walk Away