“Don’t be afraid of your dark places,” Mom told her. “If you can shine a light on them, you’ll find treasure there.”
― Jeannette Walls, quote from The Silver Star
“What I do know is that wondering why you survived don’t help you survive.”
― Jeannette Walls, quote from The Silver Star
“What struck me most was his crooked grin, like he saw the world in his own special way and got a kick out of it.”
― Jeannette Walls, quote from The Silver Star
“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.”
― Jeannette Walls, quote from The Silver Star
“Job, chapter fourteen, verse seven,” Aunt Al said. “ ‘For there is hope for a tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, and that its tender shoots will not cease.’ ”
― Jeannette Walls, quote from The Silver Star
“If you went back far enough, Uncle Tinsley went on, just about”
― Jeannette Walls, quote from The Silver Star
Jeannette Walls
Born place: in Phoenix, Arizona, The United States
Born date April 21, 1960
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“In the desert I had found a freedom unattainable in civilization; a life unhampered by possessions, since everything that was not a necessity was an encumbrance.”
― Wilfred Thesiger, quote from Arabian Sands
“It is too bad that most Olympians do not train as hard as the Lashkar jihadis whose main aim in life is to kill people.”
― Vivek Pereira, quote from Indians in Pakistan
“In order to really find happiness, you need to continue looking for opportunities that you believe are meaningful, in which you will be able to learn new things, to succeed, and be given more and more responsibility to shoulder.”
― Clayton M. Christensen, quote from How Will You Measure Your Life?
“Piercings in his ears, nose and lip revealed his edgy nature. He was casual in faded blue jeans and a black t-shirt that hugged his well-muscled chest in all of the right places. His eyes were a deep, drowning blue. His hair was slightly spiky and bedroom messy with just a hint of the early Elvis style. To say that I found him attractive would be putting it lightly. He was absolutely gorgeous.”
― Trina M. Lee, quote from Once Bitten
“I knew that I had to free myself from any constraints that would prevent the pursuit of these dreams.”
― John Wood, quote from Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children
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