294 Quotes by Jeannette Walls

All seasons have something to offer.

Horses are a mirror of who you are. They’re emotionally dependent on you.

When someone’s wounded, the first order of business is to stop the bleeding. You can figure out later how best to help them heal.

You’re in a horse race but you’re thinking like a sheep. Sheep don’t win horse races.

It’s really not that hard to put food on the table if that’s what you decide to do.

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.

When people kill themselves, they think they’re ending the pain, but all they’re doing is passing it on to those they leave behind.

When Dad wasn’t telling us about all the amazing things he had already done, he was telling us about the wondrous things he was going to do. Like build the Glass Castle.

She kept saying that the flood was God’s will and we had to submit to it. But I didn’t see things that way. Submitting seemed to me a lot like giving up. If God gave us the strength to bail – the gumption to try to save ourselves – isn’t that what he wanted us to do?