Jared Hocking

“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 adventure.”
― Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle

“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.”
― Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle

“She loved the dry, crackling heat, the way the sky at sunset looked like a sheet of fire, and the overwhelming emptiness and severity of all that open land that had once been a huge ocean bed.”
― Jeannette Walls , The Glass Castle

“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.”
― Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle