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
reading addiction
She had her addictions and one of them was reading.
offers seasons
All seasons have something to offer
running people watches
Unlike diamonds, watches were practical. They were for people on the run, people with appointments to keep and schedules to meet.
college people needs
You didn't need a college degree to become one of the people who knew what was really going on. If you paid attention, you could pick things up on your own.
tables ifs hard
It's really not that hard to put food on the table if that's what you decide to do.
strong eye exercise
If you had weak eyes, they needed exercise to get strong. Glasses were like crutches. They prevented people with feeble eyes from seeing the world on their own.
mom strong sex
The way Mom saw it, women should let menfolk do the work because it made them feel more manly. That notion only made sense if you had a strong man willing to step up and get things done, and between Dad's gimp, Buster's elaborate excuses, and Apache's tendency to disappear, it was often up to me to keep the place from falling apart. But even when everyone was pitching in, we never got out from under all the work. I loved that ranch, though sometimes it did seem that instead of us owning the place, the place owned us.
mom father worry
Don't worry, God understands,' Mom said. 'He knows that your father is a cross we must bear.
unfriendly new-yorkers
New Yorkers, I figured, just pretended to be unfriendly.
sleep night looks
It was good work, the kind of work that let you sleep soundly at night and, when you awoke, look forward to the day.
mom awful hindsight
Mom could say that in hindsight, but it seemed to me that when you were in the middle of something, it was awful hard to figure out what part of it was God's will and what wasn't.
running people tails
That was the thing to remember about all monsters, They love to frighten people, but the minute you stare them down, they turn tail and run.
dog dad fire-burning
I wondered if the fire had been out to get me. I wondered if all fire was related, like Dad said all humans were related, if the fire that had burned me that day while I cooked hot dogs was somehow connected o the fire I had flushed down the toilet and the fire burning at the hotel. 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. It was the sort of knowledge that kept you on your toes.
mom mind littles
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.