294 Quotes by Jeannette Walls

No one expected you to amount to much," she told me. "Lori was the smart one, Maureen the pretty one, and Brian the brave one. You never had much going for you except that you always worked hard.

She was developing what Mom called a bit of a sarcastic streak.

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.

Memoir is about handing over you life to someone and saying, This is what I went through, this is who I am, and maybe you can learn something from it.

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

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.

Things usually work out in the end." "What if they don't?" "That just means you haven't come to the end yet.

One thing about whoring: It put a chicken on the table.

The fact is, you don't love me, and you haven't destroyed me. You don't have what it takes to do that.