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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 _ 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. Jeannette Walls _ The Glass Castle

    You know you're down and out when Okies laugh at you,' she said. With our garbage bag taped window, our tied down hood, and art supplies strapped to the roof, we'd out-Okied the Okies.
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  7. Jeannette Walls _ The Glass Castle

    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. All of Dad's engineering skills and mathematical genius were coming together in one special project: a great big house he was going to build for us in the desert. It would have a glass ceiling and thick glass walls and even a glass staircase. The Glass Castle would have solar cells on the top that would catch the sun's rays and convert them into electricity for heating and cooling and running all the appliances. It would even have its own water-purification system. Dad had worked out the architecture and the floor plans and most of the mathematical calculations. He carried around the blueprints for the Glass Castle wherever we went, and sometimes he'd pull them out and let us work on the design for our rooms. All we had to do was find gold, Dad said, and we were on the verge of that. Once he finished the Prospector and we struck it rich, he'd start work on our Glass Castle.
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  8. Jeannette Walls _ The Glass Castle

    spend the afternoon making a meal that will be gone in an hour,
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  9. Jeannette Walls _ The Glass Castle

    You can't live in fear of something as basic as fire.
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  10. Jeannette Walls _ The Glass Castle

    What I loved most about calling myself a reporter was that it gave me an excuse to show up anyplace.
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  11. Jeannette Walls _ The Glass Castle

    Everyone has something good about them," she said. "You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.
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  12. Jeannette Walls _ The Glass Castle

    I didn't have the answers to those questions, but what I did know was that I lived in a world that at any moment could erupt into fire. pg. 34
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