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1 " Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more. "
― Jeannette Walls , The Glass Castle
2 " Sometimes you need a little crisis to get your adrenaline flowing and help you realize your potential. "
3 " 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. "
― Jeannette Walls , Half Broke Horses
4 " If you want to be reminded of the love of the Lord, just watch the sunrise. "
5 " God deals us all different hands. How we play 'em is up to us. "
6 " Submitting seemed to me a lot like giving up. If God gave us the strength to bail- the gumption to try and save ourselves- isn't that what he wanted us to do? "
7 " 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. "
8 " You didn't need a college degree to become one of the people who knew what was really going on. If you paid attention, you could pick things up on your own. "
9 " ...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. "
10 " In this world, it's not enough to have a fine education. You need a piece of paper to prove you got it. "
11 " Most important thing in life is learning how to fall. "
12 " New Yorkers, I figured, just pretended to be unfriendly. "
13 " 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. "
14 " That was the thing to remember about all monsters, They love to frightenpeople, but the minute you stare them down, they turn tail and run. "
― Jeannette Walls
15 " People are like animals. Some are happiest penned in, some need to roam free. You go to recognize what's in her nature and accept it. "
16 " Life there was hard and it made people hard. "
17 " 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. "
18 " One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by. "
19 " She had her addictions and one of them was reading. "
20 " I loved college... I knew exactly why I was there and what I wanted to get out of it. I wished I could take every course in the curriculum and read every book in the library. Sometimes after I finished a particularly good book, I had the urge to get the library card, find our who else had read the book, and track them down to talk about it. "
