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  1. Jeannette Walls _ Half Broke Horses

    Most important thing in life," he would say, "is learning how to fall." *
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  2. Jeannette Walls _ Half Broke Horses

    I've told you before, life's not about doing what you want.
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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. Jeannette Walls _ Half Broke Horses

    aficionados of the weather. We'd follow a storm
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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. Jeannette Walls _ Half Broke Horses

    I think you'd make a wonderful teacher. You have a strong personality. The women I know with strong personalities, the ones who might have become generals or the heads of companies if they were men, become teachers."
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  9. Jeannette Walls _ Half Broke Horses

    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?
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  10. Jeannette Walls _ Half Broke Horses

    The tree burst into color and we all gasped at the red, yellow, green, white and the blue lights boldly growing in the cold night, the only lights for miles around in the inmense darkness of the range.
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  11. Jeannette Walls _ Half Broke Horses

    Ironing was a particularly galling waste of time. You'd spend twenty minutes pressing one shirt front and back, spraying starch and getting the creases sharp, but once the man of the house put it on, it would wrinkle as soon as he bent an elbow; plus, you couldn't even see whether the danged shirt was ironed or not under his suit coat.
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  12. Jeannette Walls _ Half Broke Horses

    If you want to be reminded of the love of the Lord, Mom always said, just watch the sunrise. And if you want to be reminded of the wrath of the Lord, Dad said, watch a tornado.
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