Jeannette Walls Quotes - Page 5

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• When I got a little older, I started writing for the high school newspaper, The Maroon Wave, and that's when I fell in love with journalism.

  Jeannette Walls

  Writing, School, Littles

  "Jeannette Walls Answers Your Questions". ABC News Interview, abcnews.go.com. March 15, 2005.

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• I became known as Lily Casey, the mustang-breaking, poker-playing, horse-race-winning schoolmarm of Coconino County, and it wasn't half bad to be in place where no one had a problem with a woman having a moniker like that.

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  Horse, Winning, Race

  Jeannette Walls (2010). “Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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• Everything in life is gray, you know.

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  Life, Inspire, Gray

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• We laughed about all the kids who believed in the Santa Clause myth and got nothing but a bunch of cheap plastic toys. 'Years from now, when all the junk they got is broken and long forgotten,' Dad said, ' you'll still have your stars.

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  Stars, Dad, Kids

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• It's so much of what art and creativity are, being able to confront your own demons. If you can do that, you can get through just about everything.

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  Art, Creativity, Able

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• 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.

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  Mom, Nice, Struggle

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

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• Mom told us we would have to go shoplifting. Isn't that a sin?" I asked Mom. Not exactly," Mom said. "God doesn't mind you bending the rules a little if you have a good reason. It's sort of like justifiable homicide. This is justifiable pilfering.

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  Mom, Mind, Bending

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• A lady's hair is her crowning glory

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  Hair, Glory, Crowning Glory

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

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• What I do know is that wondering why you survived don't help you survive.

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  Helping, Wonder, Knows

  Jeannette Walls (2013). “The Silver Star”, p.151, Simon and Schuster

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• Living there [Horse Mesa] was like living in a natural cathedral. Waking up every morning, you walked outside and looked down at the blue lake, then up at the sandstone cliffs--those awe-inspiring layers of red and yellow rock shaped over the millennia, with dozens of black-streaked crevices that temporarily became waterfalls after rainstorms.

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  Morning, Horse, Lakes

  Jeannette Walls (2009). “Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel”, p.245, Simon and Schuster

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• If you had weak eyes, they needed exercise to get strong. Glasses were like crutches. They prevented people with feeble eyes from seeing the world on their own.

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  Strong, Eye, Exercise

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• Mom could say that in hindsight, but it seemed to me that when you were in the middle of something, it was awful hard to figure out what part of it was God's will and what wasn't.

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  Mom, Awful, Hindsight

  Jeannette Walls (2010). “Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• Some people who've read my story think I had a terrible childhood and that I was neglected or even abused, while others feel that my parents, while certainly flawed, also had truly wonderful qualities. And that's the way it should be, because in real life two people can look at the same president and one will see a hero and the other a villain.

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  Real, Hero, Thinking

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• The way Mom saw it, women should let menfolk do the work because it made them feel more manly. That notion only made sense if you had a strong man willing to step up and get things done, and between Dad's gimp, Buster's elaborate excuses, and Apache's tendency to disappear, it was often up to me to keep the place from falling apart. But even when everyone was pitching in, we never got out from under all the work. I loved that ranch, though sometimes it did seem that instead of us owning the place, the place owned us.

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  Mom, Strong, Sex

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• I reached my full height at age 11, and I was clumsy as all get-out - all elbows and knees, couldn't get up a flight of stairs without falling down. I wanted to be a cute, petite blonde, but I'm a big ol' strapping thing, so I just accept it.

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  Cute, Fall, Age

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• I listen to music mostly in the evening. I've come to love what is called world music, like the Zimbabwean Oliver Mtukudzi and the Colombian singer Marta Gomez. I also love the Irish folk singer Mary Black. Other favorites include Chet Baker, Eva Cassidy, and Billie Holiday.

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  Holiday, Black, Bakers

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• You West Virginia girls are one tough breed," he said. You got that right," I told him.

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  Girl, Virginia, West

  Jeannette Walls (2009). “The Glass Castle: A Memoir”, p.246, Simon and Schuster

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• New Yorkers, I figured, just pretended to be unfriendly.

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  Unfriendly, New Yorkers

  Jeannette Walls (2009). “The Glass Castle: A Memoir”, p.246, Simon and Schuster

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• I found out that people are incredibly compassionate and kind. It really changed my view of the world.

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  Views, People, World

  "Life in 'Glass Castle' only made Walls stronger" by Denise Hazlick, www.today.com. March 21, 2006.

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• Mom also hinted a couple of times that it was good I was going to college, since with one failed marriage behind me, I 'd have trouble landing a good husband and would need something to fall back on. "A package that's been opened once doesn't have the same appeal".

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  Mom, Couple, Husband

  Jeannette Walls (2009). “Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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