Jeannette Walls Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• She wore tight corsets to give her a teeny waist - I helped her lace them up - but they had the effect of causing her to faint. Mom called it the vapors and said it was a sign of her high breeding and delicate nature. I thought it was a sign that the corset made it hard to breathe.

  Jeannette Walls

  Mom, Giving, Vapor

  Jeannette Walls (2010). “Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

• One time I saw a tiny Joshua tree sapling growing not too far from the old tree. I wanted to dig it up and replant it near our house. I told Mom that I would protect it from the wind and water it every day so that it could grow nice and tall and straight. Mom frowned at me. "You'd be destroying what makes it special," she said. "It's the Joshua tree's struggle that gives it its beauty.

  Jeannette Walls

  Mom, Nice, Struggle

  Jeannette Walls (2009). “The Glass Castle: A Memoir”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

• It's the Joshua tree's struggle that gives it its beauty.

  Jeannette Walls

  Struggle, Giving, Tree

  Jeannette Walls (2009). “The Glass Castle: A Memoir”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

• But the positive thoughts would give way to negative thoughts, and the negative thoughts seemed to swoop into her mind the way a big flock of black crows takes over the landscape, sitting thick in the trees and on the fence rails and lawns, staring at you in ominous silence.

  Jeannette Walls

  Giving, Silence, Tree

  Jeannette Walls (2009). “The Glass Castle: A Memoir”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

• Books are my very favorite gift to give. If you give a book to someone and they really respond to it, you feel you've actually changed their life in some way.

  Jeannette Walls

  Book, Giving, Way

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