Jeannette Walls: Quotes about life

Jeannette Walls is American writer and journalist. Explore interesting quotes on life.
Jeannette Walls: 100 quotes6 likes

“I wanted to let the world know that no one had a perfect life, that even the people who seemed to have it all had their secrets.”

Jeannette Walls book The Glass Castle

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“Life's too short to care about what other people think. Besides, they should accept us for who we are”

Jeannette Walls book The Glass Castle

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“Most important thing in life is learning how to fall.”

Jeannette Walls book Half Broke Horses

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“Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more.”

Jeannette Walls book The Glass Castle

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“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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“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

“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

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“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

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“Life there was hard and it made people hard.”

Jeannette Walls book The Glass Castle

Source: The Glass Castle