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“You can't cling to the side your whole life, that one lesson every parent needs to teach a child is "If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim”

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Jeannette Walls livre The Glass Castle

Source: The Glass Castle

“Horses were never wrong. They always did what they did for a reason, and it was up to you to figure it out.”

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Jeannette Walls livre Half Broke Horses

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“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.”

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Jeannette Walls livre Half Broke Horses

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“If you want to be treated like a mother, act like one.”

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Jeannette Walls livre Half Broke Horses

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“God deals us all different hands. How we play 'em is up to us.”

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Jeannette Walls livre Half Broke Horses

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

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Jeannette Walls livre The Glass Castle

Source: The Glass Castle

“Sometimes something catastrophic can occur in a split second that changes a person's life forever; other times one minor incident can lead to another and then another and another, eventually setting off just as big a change in a body's life.”

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Jeannette Walls livre Half Broke Horses

Source: Half Broke Horses

“Mom told us we would have to go shoplifting.
Isn't that a sin?" I asked Mom.
Not exactly," Mom said. "God doesn't mind you bending the rules a little if you have a good reason. It's sort of like justifiable homicide. This is justifiable pilfering.”

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Jeannette Walls livre The Glass Castle

Source: The Glass Castle

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

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Jeannette Walls livre The Glass Castle

Source: The Glass Castle

“Interesting people always have a past.”

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“Life there was hard and it made people hard.”

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Jeannette Walls livre The Glass Castle

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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.”

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Jeannette Walls livre Half Broke Horses

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

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Jeannette Walls livre The Glass Castle

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“sometimes after I finished a particularly good book, I had the urge to get the library card, find out who else had read the book, and track them down to talk about it”

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Jeannette Walls livre Half Broke Horses

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“No child is born a delinquent. They only became that way if nobody loved them when they were kids. Unloved children grow up to be serial murderers or alcoholics.”

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Jeannette Walls livre The Glass Castle

Source: The Glass Castle

“It's the Joshua tree's struggle that gives it its beauty.”

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Jeannette Walls livre The Glass Castle

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“It (the sun) didn't really care how I felt, it was going to rise and set regardless of whether I noticed it, and if I was going to enjoy it, that was up to me.”

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Jeannette Walls livre Half Broke Horses

Source: Half Broke Horses

“Maybe I should have cut him some slack. With his broken wing and lifetime of eating roadkill, he probably had a lot to be ungrateful about. Too much hard luck can create a permanent meanness of spirit in any creature.”

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Jeannette Walls livre The Glass Castle

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“Unlike diamonds, watches were practical. They were for people on the run, people with appointments to keep and schedules to meet.”

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Jeannette Walls livre The Glass Castle

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“When God closes a door, he opens a window, but it's up to you to find it.”

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