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New Yorkers, I figured, just pretended to be unfriendly.

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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.

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We had some times, didn't we?''We did.''Never did build that Glass Castle.''No. But we had fun planning it.

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Life's too short to worry about what other people think,'' Mom said.''Anyway, they should accept us for who we are.

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You're not supposed to laugh at your own father. Ever.

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Everyone has something good about them, she said. You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that. Oh yeah? I said. How about Hitler? What was his redeeming quality? Hitler loved dogs, Mom said without hesitation.

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Poor old Venus didn't even make her own light, Dad said. She shone only from reflected light.

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I’d rather have a yard filled with genuine garbage than withtrashy lawn ornaments.

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The world seemed divided into girls with boyfriends and girls without them. It was the distinction that mattered the most, practically the only one that did matter. But I knew that boys were dangerous. They'd say they loved you, but they were always after something.

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I’m a grown woman now, Mom said almost every morning. Why can’t I do what I want to do?

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She knew how to get by on next to nothing. pg. 21

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I’m not upset because I’ll miss you, Mom said. I’m upset because you get to go to New York and I’m stuck here. It’s not fair.

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But the positive thoughts would give away to negative thoughts, and the negative thoughts seemed to swoop into her mind the way a big flock of black crows takes over the landscape, sitting thick in the trees and on the fence rails and lawns, staring at you in ominous silence.

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As awful as he could be, I always knew he loved me in a way no one else ever had.

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Everyone has something good about them, she said. You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.

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Okay, kids,' Dad said, 'the civilians are revolting. We better skedaddle.

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When Dad wasn’t telling us about all the amazing things he had already done, he was telling us about the wondrous things he was going to do. Like build the Glass Castle.

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During the sermon, the priest discussed the miracle of Immaculate Conception and the Virgin Birth. Virgin, my ass! Dad shouted. Mary was a sweet Jewish broad who got herself knocked up!

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It’s not being prejudiced, Mom said. It’s a matter of accuracy in labeling.

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Life's too short to worry about what other people think... Anyway, they should accept us for who we are.

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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. 

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I had always wanted a watch. Unlike diamonds, watches were practical. They were for people on the run, people with appointments to keep and schedules to meet. That was the kind of person I wanted to be.

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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. pg. 52

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You can't live in fear of something as basic as fire.

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You know you're down and out when Okies laugh at you,' she said. With our garbage bag taped window, our tied down hood, and art supplies strapped to the roof, we'd out-Okied the Okies.

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As for the learning itself, I figured you didn't need a college degree to become on of the people who knew what was really going on. If you paid attention, you could pick things up on your own.

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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.pg. 21

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I was torturing the fire, giving it life, and snuffing it out. pg. 33

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Years from now, when all the junk they got is broken and long forgotten, Dad said, you’ll still have your stars.

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You know you're down and out when the Okies laugh at you.

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The world seemed divided into girls with boyfriends and girls without them.

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What I loved most about calling myself a reporter was that it gave me an excuse to show up anyplace.

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She bought a bucket. It was made of yellow plastic, and we kept it on the floor in the kitchen, and that was what we used whenever we had to go to the bathroom. When it filled up, some brave soul would carry it outside, dig a hole, and empty it.

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Pleased to meet you, Grandma,’ I said.

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We laughed about all the kids who believed in the Santa myth and got nothing for Christmas but a bunch of cheap plastic toys. "Years from now, when all the junk they got is broken and long forgotten," Dad said, "you'll still have your stars.

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We’re becoming a nation of sissies.

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Everyone has something good about them. You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that. Oh Yeah? I said. How about Hitler? What was his redeeming quality? Hitler loved dogs Mom said without hesitation.

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If you want to live in the farmland, haul your sorry hide off to Pennsylvania.

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we should never eat the liver of a polar bear because all the vitamin A in it could kill us.

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A wind picked up, rattling the windows, and the candle flames suddenly shifted, dancing along the border between turbulence and order.

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