294 Quotes by Jeannette Walls

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.

Sometimes you have to get sicker before you can get better.

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.

You'll never make a fortune working for the boss man

Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more.

Sometimes you need a little crisis to get your adrenaline flowing and help you realize your potential.

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.

One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by.

She had her addictions and one of them was reading.