"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."

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Source : Heather O'Neill (2009). “Lullabies for Little Criminals: A Novel”, p.16, Harper Collins

Heather O'Neill

#Kids Quotes #Chocolate Quotes #Black Quotes

“I never had a trial I wanted to have, but I never had trial I wasn't glad I had.”
“Even if you can't get rid of the heat, as long as you can get rid of bother with the heat, your body is always on a cool terrace. Even if you can't get rid of poverty, as long as you can get rid of the sadness of poverty, your mind always lives in a comfortable abode.”
“A secret society exists, and is living among all of us. They are neither people nor animals, but something in-between.”
“When I'm reading material, if I'm a little bit afraid of a part and I'm willing to admit that to myself, then I'll do it, definitely. If I'm worried about being able to do it, to get it -I absolutely just love it.”
“Bach is like an astronomer who, with the help of ciphers, finds the most wonderful stars.”
“A great love is a credit opened in favor of a power so consuming that the moment of bankruptcy must inevitably occur.”
“Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn't.”
“The supreme maxim in scientific philosophising is this: wherever possible, logical constructions are to be substituted for inferred entities.”

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