Lullabies for Little Criminals

by Heather O'Neill

If you want to get a child to love you, then you should just go and hide in the closet for three or four hours. They get down on their knees and pray for you to return. That child will turn you into God. Lonely children probably wrote the Bible.

In a way I am perpetually and permanently in a state of rehabilitation. In an attempt to rehabilitate from the shock of being born. Some people are too sensitive to withstand that.”

I was put here—Jules and I were both put here—to see sadder things. We had to stand in the rain and explain why the world was a lovely place.