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She was going to leave my life at the same moment that I came into hers, I thought.
“We don't always do the things our parents want us to do, but it is their mistake if they can't find a way to love us anyway.”
― Commencement
― Commencement
“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.”
― The Glass Castle
― The Glass Castle
“Things usually work out in the end."
"What if they don't?"
"That just means you haven't come to the end yet.”
― The Glass Castle
"What if they don't?"
"That just means you haven't come to the end yet.”
― The Glass Castle
“One time I saw a tiny Joshua tree sapling growing not too far from the old tree. I wanted to dig it up and replant it near our house. I told Mom that I would protect it from the wind and water it every day so that it could grow nice and tall and straight. Mom frowned at me. "You'd be destroying what makes it special," she said. "It's the Joshua tree's struggle that gives it its beauty.”
― The Glass Castle
― The Glass Castle
“If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim”
― The Glass Castle
― The Glass Castle
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