Glass Castle Theme Quotes

#1. Be fair. Don't present your version of the truth to others. Lose your ulterior motives! Be accurate and pure in your presentation of the way, and you will become the way.

Frederick Lenz

#2. Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes angry.

Euripides

#3. I, for one, have no interest at all in having my heart stolen.

Sarah MacLean

#4. He believed in rational thinking and scientific inquiry, which was why he never won an argument with his mother, who believed in people doing what she told them, and believed it with a rock-hard certainty which dismissed all opposition.

Terry Pratchett

#5. Our choices are truncated in evil's presence.

Michael Ventura

#6. I've wrecked my fair share of cars. I've had my fair share of injuries. If you put too much focus on it or you really worry about it, it's going to consume you. That's never good.

Justin Allgaier

#7. Those that we love never truly leave us, Harry. There are things that death cannot touch. Paint . . . and memory . . . and love.

J.K. Rowling

#8. Beware! Balance rules the cosmos. It is not concerned with good or bad. You can be struck by misfortune and be buried in grief if that is what it takes to restore the imbalance you have wrought unto the world.

Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

#9. Eli Lilly had decided not to sell in Japan in the 80's because of a lack of demand, but with the introduction of the new diagnosis kokoro no kaze (which translates to "your soul has a cold"), mild depression became a "real" illness, treatable with medication.

Margee Kerr

#10. Bourgeois society is ruled by equivalence. It makes the dissimilar comparable by reducing it to abstract quantities. To the enlightenment, that which does not reduce to numbers, and ultimately to the one, becomes illusion.

Theodor Adorno

#11. I don't rock chains our ancestors did it for us

Phonte

#12. Tom Sleigh's poetry is hard-earned and well founded. I great admire the way it refuses to cut emotional corners and yet achieves a sense of lyric absolution.

Seamus Heaney

#13. Wonder is the beginning of all wisdom.

Socrates

#14. The Captain of the Guard would be an interesting opponent. Maybe even worthy of some effort on her part.

Sarah J. Maas