She knew how to get by on next to nothing. pg. 21
One thing about whoring: It put a chicken on the table.
Life's too short to worry about what other people think,'' Mom said.''Anyway, they should accept us for who we are.
It was your inner spirit and not your outward appearance that mattered,
It (the sun) didn't really care how I felt, it was going to rise and set regardless of whether I noticed it, and if I was going to enjoy it, that was up to me.
If I owned hell and west Texas, he said, I do believe I'd sell west Texas and live in hell.
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 co...
I wanted to let the world know that no one had a perfect life, that even people who seemed to have it all had their secrets.
Everyone has something good about them, she said. You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that. Oh yeah? I said. How about Hitler? What was his redeeming quality? Hitler loved d...
Everyone has something good about them, she said. You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.
Every household needs one piece of furniture in really bad taste.
Don't you make fun of me or my children! Some babies are premature. Mine were all postmature. That's why they're so smart. Their brains had longer to develop.
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.
As awful as he could be, I always knew he loved me in a way no one else ever had.
Anyone who thinks he's too small to make a difference has never been bit by a mosquito.
And if the world went to hell in a handbasket-as it seemed to be doing-you could say good-bye to everyone and retreat to your land, hunkering down and living off it.
A wind picked up, rattling the windows, and the candle flames suddenly shifted, dancing along the border between turbulence and order.
Spend the afternoon making a meal that will be gone in an hour,
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.
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.