Jeannette Walls Quotes

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Interesting people always have a past.

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  Past, Interesting, People

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Maybe I should have cut him some slack. With his broken wing and lifetime of eating roadkill, he probably had a lot to be ungrateful about. Too much hard luck can create a permanent meanness of spirit in any creature.

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  Cutting, Should Have, Wings

  Jeannette Walls (2009). “The Glass Castle: A Memoir”, p.120, Simon and Schuster

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• The best time to tell your story is when you have to tell your story. When it's not really a choice. But then, when you get that first, messy, complicated version down, you have to read it over and be very tough on yourself and ask, 'Well what's the story here?' If you're lucky enough to have someone you trust looking over your shoulder, he or she can help you if [you] lack perspective on your own story.

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  Writing, Perspective, Choices

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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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• Those shining stars, he liked to point out, were one of the special treats for people like us who lived out in the wilderness. Rich city folks, he'd say, lived in fancy apartments, but their air was so polluted they couldn't even see the stars. We'd have to be out of our minds to want to trade places with any of them.

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  Stars, Air, Cities

  Jeannette Walls (2009). “The Glass Castle: A Memoir”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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

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  Struggle, Giving, Tree

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

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