294 Quotes by Jeannette Walls

Dad said High Lonesome, as the area was known, wasn’t a place for the soft of head or the weak of heart, and he said that was why he and I made out just fine there, because we were both tough nuts.

If you don’t think you’re hurt, then you aren’t.

What turns to stone is inside you.

Mom could say that in hindsight, but it seemed to me that when you were in the middle of something, it was awful hard to figure out what part of it was God’s will and what wasn’t.

To all families who, despite their scars, still find a way to love.

It’s not being prejudiced,” Mom said. “It’s a matter of accuracy in labeling.

Pleased to meet you, Grandma,’ I said.

You know you’re down and out when the Okies laugh at you.

Helen and Buster got down and started praying with Mom, but I just stood there looking at them. The way I saw it, I was the one who’d saved us all, not Mom and not some guardian angel.