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  1. Jeannette Walls _ The Glass Castle

    A wind picked up, rattling the windows, and the candle flames suddenly shifted, dancing along the border between turbulence and order.
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  2. Jeannette Walls _ Half Broke Horses

    Most important thing in life," he would say, "is learning how to fall." *
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  3. Jeannette Walls _ The Glass Castle

    woman grabbed my shirt and tried to pull me over the chain. "It's all right," I told her. "My dad does stuff like this all the time." "He should be arrested!" she shouted. "Okay, kids,
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  4. Jeannette Walls _ The Glass Castle

    we should never eat the liver of a polar bear because all the vitamin A in it could kill us.
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  5. Jeannette Walls _ Half Broke Horses

    I've told you before, life's not about doing what you want.
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  6. Jeannette Walls _ Half Broke Horses

    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.
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  7. Jeannette Walls _ The Glass Castle

    Mom asked me if I was okay. I shrugged and nodded. "Well, there you go", she said. She said that sexual assault was a crime of perception. "If you don't think you're hurt, then you aren't", she said. "So many women make such a big deal out of these things. But you're stronger then that", she went back to her crossword puzzle.
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  8. Jeannette Walls _ Half Broke Horses

    There was nothing to compare with standing on a piece of land you owned free and clear. No one could push you off it, no one could take it from you, no one could tell you what to do with it. The soil belonged to you, and so did every rock, every blade of grass, every tree, and all the water and minerals under the land all the way to the center of the earth. And if the world went to hell in a hand-basket-as it seemed to be doing-you could say good-bye to everyone and retreat to your land, hunkering down and living off it. Land belonged to you and yours forever.
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  9. Jeannette Walls _ The Glass Castle

    As for the learning itself, I figured you didn't need a college degree to become on of the people who knew what was really going on. If you paid attention, you could pick things up on your own.
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  10. Jeannette Walls _ Half Broke Horses

    aficionados of the weather. We'd follow a storm
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  11. Jeannette Walls _ Half Broke Horses

    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.
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  12. Jeannette Walls _ Half Broke Horses

    The barn was dark from the storm, and we couldn't find the harness, which no one had used in years. Old Jake, who had sprained his good foot falling off a horse and was hobbling around worse than ever, started getting panicky at the idea of the dam giving out and washing away the cattle, but I told him to hush his mouth. We all knew what was at stake, and if we were going to save the ranch, we needed clear heads.
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