Jeannette Walls Quotes

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Nobody's perfect. We're all just one step up from the beasts and one step down from the angels.

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Angel, Perfect, Steps

Jeannette Walls (2009). “Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel”, p.257, Simon and Schuster

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You should never hate anyone, even your worst enemies. Everyone has something good about them. You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.

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Hate, Acceptance, Worst Enemy

Jeannette Walls (2006). “The Glass Castle: A Memoir”, p.144, Simon and Schuster

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Things usually work out in the end." "What if they don't?" "That just means you haven't come to the end yet.

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Mean, Work Out, What If

Jeannette Walls (2009). “The Glass Castle: A Memoir”, p.259, Simon and Schuster

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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.

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People, Perfect, Secret

Jeannette Walls (2009). “The Glass Castle: A Memoir”, p.270, Simon and Schuster

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

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Inspirational, Motivational, Horse

Jeannette Walls (2009). “Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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Sometimes you need a little crisis to get your adrenaline flowing and help you realize your potential.

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Needs, Littles, Helping

Jeannette Walls (2009). “The Glass Castle: A Memoir”, p.254, Simon and Schuster

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One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by.

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Summer, Light, Each Day

FaceBook post by Jeannette Walls from Jun 22, 2015

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

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Thinking, People, Care

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I lived in a world that at any moment could erupt into fire. It was the sort of knowledge that kept you on your toes.

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Fire, World, Toes

Jeannette Walls (2009). “The Glass Castle: A Memoir”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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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

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Children, Parent, Swim

Jeannette Walls (2009). “The Glass Castle: A Memoir”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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Most important thing in life is learning how to fall.

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Life, Fall, Important

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If you don't think you're hurt, then you aren't

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Hurt, Thinking, Ifs

Jeannette Walls (2009). “The Glass Castle: A Memoir”, p.184, Simon and Schuster

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I hadn’t been paying much attention to things like the sunrise, but that old sun had been coming up anyway. It didn’t really care how I felt, it was going to rise and set regardless of whether I noticed it, and if I was going to enjoy it, that was up to me.

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Sunrise, Attention, Care

Jeannette Walls (2009). “Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel”, p.113, Simon and Schuster

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Sometimes you have to get sicker before you can get better.

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Get Better, Sometimes

Jeannette Walls (2009). “The Glass Castle: A Memoir”, p.118, Simon and Schuster

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God deals us all different hands. How we play 'em is up to us.

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Hands, Play, Different

Jeannette Walls (2010). “Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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No one expected you to amount to much," she told me. "Lori was the smart one, Maureen the pretty one, and Brian the brave one. You never had much going for you except that you always worked hard.

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Smart, Brave, Brian

Jeannette Walls (2009). “The Glass Castle: A Memoir”, p.270, Simon and Schuster

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No child is born a delinquent. They only became that way if nobody loved them when they were kids. Unloved children grow up to be serial murderers or alcoholics.

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Children, Growing Up, Kids

"The Glass Castle". Book by Jeannette Walls, 2010.

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But no matter how much planning you do, one tiny miscalculation, one moment of distraction, can end it all in an instant.

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Matter, Tiny, Planning

Jeannette Walls (2010). “Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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One of the most challenging aspects of writing a memoir is finding your own voice, and you should be very careful about being influenced by someone else's voice.

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Writing, Voice, Challenges

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Mom always said people worried too much about their children. Suffering when you are young is good for you, she said. It immunized your body and your soul.

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Mom, Children, People

Jeannette Walls (2006). “The Glass Castle: A Memoir”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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Interesting people always have a past.

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Past, Interesting, People

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

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Drama, Tragedy, Littles

Jeannette Walls (2009). “The Glass Castle: A Memoir”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

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Confidence doesn't come from thinking you're perfect or flawless. That's arrogance. Confidence comes from appreciating the beauty of your texture.

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Thinking, Appreciate, Perfect

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When God closes a door, he opens a window, but it's up to you to find it.

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Doors, Up To You, Window

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My advice to anyone is to figure out what you're good at - what it is that you love doing the most in life - and figure out a way to make a living from it.

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Advice, Way, Figures

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Born: April 21, 1960
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