Jeannette Walls
Jeannette Walls
Jeannette Wallsis an American writer and journalist widely known as former gossip columnist for MSNBC.com — and author of The Glass Castle, a memoir of the nomadic family life of her childhood, which stayed on the New York Times Best Seller list for 100 weeks...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMemoirist
Date of Birth21 April 1960
CityPhoenix, AZ
CountryUnited States of America
adventure hands world
You can't prepare for everything life's going to throw at you. And you can't avoid danger. It's there. The world is a dangerous place, and if you sit around wringing your hands about it, you'll out on all the adventure.
dad space purpose
Dad was a philosopher and had what he called his Theory of Purpose, which held that everything in life had a purpose, and unless it achieved that purpose, it was just taking up space on the planet and wasting everybody's time.
matter tiny planning
But no matter how much planning you do, one tiny miscalculation, one moment of distraction, can end it all in an instant.
forever body splits
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.
suicide pain suicidal
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.
fire toes world
I lived in a world that at any moment could erupt into fire. It was the sort of knowledge that kept you on your toes.
forever afternoon lasts
Why spend the afternoon making a meal that will be gone in an hour," she'd ask us, "when in the same amount of time, I can do a painting that will last forever?
mom sarcastic streaks
She was developing what Mom called a bit of a sarcastic streak.
facts you-dont-love-me destroyed
The fact is, you don't love me, and you haven't destroyed me. You don't have what it takes to do that.
horse winning race
I became known as Lily Casey, the mustang-breaking, poker-playing, horse-race-winning schoolmarm of Coconino County, and it wasn't half bad to be in place where no one had a problem with a woman having a moniker like that.
stars dad kids
We laughed about all the kids who believed in the Santa Clause myth and got nothing but a bunch of cheap plastic toys. 'Years from now, when all the junk they got is broken and long forgotten,' Dad said, ' you'll still have your stars.
who-i-am over-you handing-over
Memoir is about handing over you life to someone and saying, This is what I went through, this is who I am, and maybe you can learn something from it.
stars years broken
Years from now, when all the junk they got is broken and long forgotten, you'll still have your stars.
get-better sometimes
Sometimes you have to get sicker before you can get better.