“You're in a horse race but you're thinking like a sheep. Sheep don't win horse races.”
Jeannette Walls book The Glass Castle
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The Glass Castle is a 2005 memoir by Jeannette Walls. The book recounts the unconventional, poverty-stricken upbringing Jeannette and her siblings had at the hands of their deeply dysfunctional parents. The title
“She had her addictions and one of them was reading.”
Jeannette Walls book The Glass Castle
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“It's the Joshua tree's struggle that gives it its beauty.”
Jeannette Walls book The Glass Castle
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“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 you have to get sicker before you can get better.”
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“She was developing what Mom called a bit of a sarcastic streak.”
Jeannette Walls book The Glass Castle
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“Life there was hard and it made people hard.”
Jeannette Walls book The Glass Castle
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“One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by.”
Jeannette Walls book The Glass Castle
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