20 Best ‘The Glass Castle’ Quotes By Jeannette Walls
20 Best ‘The Glass Castle’ Quotes By Jeannette Walls – These ‘The Glass Castle’ book quotes are going to get you thinking about the idea of a home and will help you understand how different people live. These Janet Walls quotes never fail to make our hearts swell, whether as the active parts of her mother and father in her life or just the little elements of her life that Joshua says Like a tree holds a grand significance.
1.”You’re in a horse race but you’re thinking like a sheep. Sheep don’t win horse races.”
-Dad.
2.”I could hear people around us whispering about the crazy drunk man and his dirty little urchin children, but who cared what they thought?”
-Jeannette Walls as narrator.
3.”Dad told us that zone was known in physics as the boundary between turbulence and order. ‘It’s the place where no rules apply, or at least they haven’t figured ’em out yet,’ he said.”
-Jeannette Walls as narrator.
“Too much hard luck can create a permanent meanness of spirit in any creature.”
-Jeannette Walls as narrator.
5.”I wondered if all fire was related, like Dad said all humans were related . . . but what I did know was that I lived in a world that at any moment could erupt into fire.”
-Jeannette Walls as narrator.
“She added that you should never hate anyone, even your worst enemies. “Everyone has something good about them,” she said. “You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.”
7.”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?”
-Mom.
8.”Suffering when you’re young is good for you, she said. It immunized your body and your soul, and that was why she ignored us kids when we cried. Fussing over children who cry only encouraged them, she told us. That’s positive reinforcement for negative behavior.”
-Mom.
9.”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.”
-Jeannette Walls as narrator.
10.”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.”
-Jeannette Walls as narrator.
11.”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.”
-Jeannette Walls as narrator.
12.”Life’s too short to care about what other people think. Besides, they should accept us for who we are”
-Mom.
13.”Sometimes you have to get sicker before you can get better.”
-Mom.
14.”She had her addictions and one of them was reading.”
-About Mom.
15.”Once you’d resolved to go, there was nothing to it at all.”
-Jeannette Walls as narrator.
16.”Sometimes you need a little crisis to get your adrenaline flowing and help you realize your potential.”
-Mom.
17.”…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.”
-Jeannette Walls as narrator.
18.”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.”
-Jeannette Walls as narrator.
19.”One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by.”
-Jeannette Walls as narrator.
20.”Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more.”
-Mom.
