Quotes by Jeannette Walls

Jeannette Walls

….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.

Hurt

Interesting

Stronger

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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.

Dad

Home

School

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[Optimism] acts as a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Optimism

Optimistic

Self

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A lady’s hair is her crowning glory

Crowning Glory

Glory

Hair

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All seasons have something to offer

Offers

Seasons

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

Differences

Making A Difference

Thinking

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As I sat down, though, I realized that you can get used to certain luxuries that you start to think they’re necessities, but when you have to forgo them, you come to see that you don’t need them after all. There was a big difference between needing things and wanting things–though a lot of people had trouble telling the two apart–and at the ranch, I could see, we have pretty much everything we’d need but precious little else.

Luxury

Thinking

Two

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Books are my very favorite gift to give. If you give a book to someone and they really respond to it, you feel you’ve actually changed their life in some way.

Book

Giving

Way

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But I also hoped that [she] had chosen California because she thought that was her true home, the place where she really belonged, where it was always warm and you could dance in the rain, pick grapes right off the vines, and sleep outside at night under the stars.

Rain

Sleep

Stars

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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.

Matter

Planning

Tiny

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