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• You're in a horse race but you're thinking like a sheep. Sheep don't win horse races.

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  Horse, Winning, Thinking

  Jeannette Walls (2006). “The Glass Castle: A Memoir”, p.227, 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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• You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.

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  Quality, And Love, Redeeming Qualities

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

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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.

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  Forever, Body, Splits

  Jeannette Walls (2009). “Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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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.

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  Adventure, Hands, World

  Jeannette Walls (2009). “Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel”, p.257, 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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• Why spend the afternoon making a meal that will be gone in an hour," she'd ask us, "when in the same amount of time, I can do a painting that will last forever?

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  Forever, Meals, Gone

  Jeannette Walls (2009). “The Glass Castle: A Memoir”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• Life there was hard and it made people hard.

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  People, Made, Hard

  Jeannette Walls (2009). “The Glass Castle: A Memoir”, p.164, Simon and Schuster

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• Anyone who thinks he's too small to make a difference has never been bit by a mosquito

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  Thinking, Differences, Making A Difference

  Jeannette Walls (2010). “Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel”, p.246, Simon and Schuster

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• In this world, it's not enough to have a fine education. You need a piece of paper to prove you got it.

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  Needs, Pieces, World

  Jeannette Walls (2009). “Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• When someone's wounded, the first order of business is to stop the bleeding. You can figure out later how best to help them heal.

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  Order, Bleeding, Firsts

  Jeannette Walls (2009). “Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel”, p.103, Simon and Schuster

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• Too much hard luck can create a permanent meanness of spirit in any creature.

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  Luck, Too Much, Spirit

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

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• It's really not that hard to put food on the table if that's what you decide to do.

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  Tables, Hard, Ifs

  Jeannette Walls (2009). “The Glass Castle: A Memoir”, p.288, Simon and Schuster

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• When people kill themselves, they think they're ending the pain, but all they're doing is passing it on to those they leave behind.

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  Suicide, Pain, Suicidal

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

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• 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.

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  Giving, Silence, Tree

  Jeannette Walls (2009). “The Glass Castle: A Memoir”, p.207, 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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• The fact is, you don't love me, and you haven't destroyed me. You don't have what it takes to do that.

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  Facts, You Don't Love Me, Havens

  Jeannette Walls (2009). “Half Broke Horses”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

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• ....he said it was interesting. He used the word 'textured'. He said 'smooth' is boring but 'textured' was interesting, and the scar meant that I was stronger than whatever had tried to hurt me.

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  Hurt, Interesting, Stronger

  Jeannette Walls (2006). “The Glass Castle: A Memoir”, p.286, Simon and Schuster

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• If you want to be reminded of the love of the Lord, just watch the sunrise.

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  Sunrise, Watches, Earth

  Jeannette Walls (2009). “Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• I feel like I failed," I said. "Don't beat yourself up," Jim said. "She might not have turned out like you planned, but that don't mean she turned out wrong.

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  Mean, Might, Like You

  Jeannette Walls (2010). “Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel”, p.264, Simon and Schuster

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• Dad was a philosopher and had what he called his Theory of Purpose, which held that everything in life had a purpose, and unless it achieved that purpose, it was just taking up space on the planet and wasting everybody's time.

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  Dad, Space, Purpose

  Jeannette Walls (2009). “Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• I was so worried that people wouldn't like me or my story.

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  People, Stories, Worried

  Leahpeah Interview, leahpeah.com.

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• In my opinion, trying to guess what readers want is the wrong approach. You have to tell your story as best you can and as true to yourself as possible. You have to be honest and fair and vulnerable and foolish and brave, and not care what anyone thinks of it.

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  Writing, Thinking, Brave

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• ...even though I was getting better education at home than any of the kids in Toyah, I'd need to go to finishing school when I was thirteen, both to acquire social graces and to earn a diploma. Because in this world, Dad said, it's not enough to have a fine education. You need a piece of paper to prove you go it.

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  Dad, Home, School

  Jeannette Walls (2009). “Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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