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“Years from now, when all the junk they got is broken and long forgotten, you'll still have your stars.”

Jeannette Walls book The Glass Castle

Source: The Glass Castle

“You can't prepare for everything life's going to throw at you. And you can't avoid danger. It's there. The world is a dangerous place, and if you sit around wringing your hands about it, you'll out on all the adventure.”

Jeannette Walls book Half Broke Horses

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“We laughed about all the kids who believed in the Santa Clause myth and got nothing but a bunch of cheap plastic toys. 'Years from now, when all the junk they got is broken and long forgotten,' Dad said, ' you'll still have your stars.”

Jeannette Walls book The Glass Castle

Source: The Glass Castle

“Look at the way you live. You've sold out. Next thing I know you'll become a Republican." She shook her head. "Where are the values I raised you with?”

Jeannette Walls book The Glass Castle

Source: The Glass Castle

“Memoir is about handing over you life to someone and saying, This is what I went through, this is who I am, and maybe you can learn something from it.”

Jeannette Walls

“Why spend the afternoon making a meal that will be gone in an hour," she'd ask us, "when in the same amount of time, I can do a painting that will last forever?”

Jeannette Walls book The Glass Castle

Source: The Glass Castle

“Whoever coined the phrase 'a man's got to play the hand that was dealt him' was most certainly one piss-poor bluffer.”

Jeannette Walls book The Glass Castle

Source: The Glass Castle

“Teaching is a calling too. And I've always thought that teachers in their way are holy - angels leading their flocks out of the darkness.”

Jeannette Walls book Half Broke Horses

Source: Half Broke Horses

“That was the thing to remember about all monsters, They love to frighten
people, but the minute you stare them down, they turn tail and run.”

Jeannette Walls

“You can't cling to the side your whole life, that one lesson every parent needs to teach a child is "If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim”

Jeannette Walls book The Glass Castle

Source: The Glass Castle

“Horses were never wrong. They always did what they did for a reason, and it was up to you to figure it out.”

Jeannette Walls book Half Broke Horses

Source: Half Broke Horses

“When someone's wounded, the first order of business is to stop the bleeding. You can figure out later how best to help them heal.”

Jeannette Walls book Half Broke Horses

Source: Half Broke Horses

“If you want to be treated like a mother, act like one.”

Jeannette Walls book Half Broke Horses

Source: Half Broke Horses

“It's really not that hard to put food on the table if that's what you decide to do.”

Jeannette Walls book The Glass Castle

Source: The Glass Castle

“Sometimes something catastrophic can occur in a split second that changes a person's life forever; other times one minor incident can lead to another and then another and another, eventually setting off just as big a change in a body's life.”

Jeannette Walls book Half Broke Horses

Source: Half Broke Horses

“Mom told us we would have to go shoplifting.
Isn't that a sin?" I asked Mom.
Not exactly," Mom said. "God doesn't mind you bending the rules a little if you have a good reason. It's sort of like justifiable homicide. This is justifiable pilfering.”

Jeannette Walls book The Glass Castle

Source: The Glass Castle

“Interesting people always have a past.”

Jeannette Walls