“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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“I'm quite sure primitive people have no difficulties surviving in a place like this, and think of all the things we have that our rude forefathers lacked.”
― Terry Pratchett, quote from The Last Continent
“Damn it. I had to let her stay.”
― Kiera Cass, quote from The Prince
“No pedagogy which is truly liberating can remain distant from the oppressed by treating them as unfortunates and by presenting for their emulation models from among the oppressors. The oppressed must be their own example in the struggle for their redemption (Freire, 1970, p. 54).”
― Paulo Freire, quote from Pedagogy of the Oppressed
“I have more CDs than 99 percent of America, but fewer CDs than 40 percent of my friends; if an acquaintance has more CDs than me, I feel intimidated and emasculated. I think about my CDs a lot. I find it oddly reassuring to look at them when I'm intoxicated.”
― Chuck Klosterman, quote from Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
“Those who believe that we are anything other than animals are blind. All humans are savages. The ones who are well fed are just lazier. They don't need to kill to get their food. So they dress up and find so-called loftier pursuits that make them believe that they are somehow above it all. Such nonsense. Savages are just hungrier. That was all.
You do horrible things to survive. Anyone who believes that they are above that is delusional.”
― Harlan Coben, quote from The Woods
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