I felt best when I was on the move, going someplace rather than being there.
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
History gets written by the winners, he said, and when the crooks win, you get crooked history.
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...
Things usually work out in the end.What if they don't?That just means you haven't come to the end yet.
Mom, you have to leave Dad, I said. She stopped doing her toe touches. I can’t believe you would say that, she said. I can’t believe that you, of all people, would turn on your father. I was Dad’s las...
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 justifiab...
Mom and Dad liked to make a big point about never surrendering to fear or to prejudice or to the narrow-minded conformist sticks-in-the-mud who tried to tell everyone else what was proper.
It was good work, the kind of work that let you sleep soundly at night and, when you awoke, look forward to the day.
Ironing was a particularly galling waste of time. You'd spend twenty minutes pressing one shirt front and back, spraying starch and getting the creases sharp, but once the man of the house put it on,...
I'm none too big on giving advice,' Aunt Al said. 'Most times when folks ask for advice, they already know what they should do. They just want to hear it from someone else.
I wanted to let the world know that no one had a perfect life, that even the people who seemed to have it all had their secrets.
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.
I hate Erma, I told Mom...You have to show compassion for her... She added that you should never hate anyone, even your worst enemies. Everyone has something good about them, she said. You have to fin...
Brian told Mom we needed to keep Maureen away from those nutty Pentecostals, but Mom said we all came to religion in our own individual ways and we each need to respect the religious practices of othe...
We had some times, didn't we?''We did.''Never did build that Glass Castle.''No. But we had fun planning it.
A little while after we'd moved into the depot, we heard Mom and Dad talking about buying us kids real beds, and we said they shouldn't do it. We liked our boxes. They made going to bed seem like an a...