Jeannette Walls Quotes

Life there was hard and it made people hard.

Too much hard luck can create a permanent meanness of spirit in any creature.

Horses are a mirror of who you are. They're emotionally dependent on you.

When I asked my mother, ‘how do I tell people about you’ her answer was ‘tell the truth’. But of course, the truth is never simple.

The dangerous falls were the ones that happened so fast you didn't have time to react

I could see why Archimedes got all excited. There was nothing finer than the feeling that came rushing through you when it clicked and you suddenly understood something that had puzzled you. It made you think it just might be possible to get a handle on this old world after all.

It's the Joshua tree's struggle that gives it its beauty.