Quotes About Glass Castle

#1. The craving to become causes fears; to be, to achieve, and so to depend engenders fear.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#2. I was in the war. I know how to kill. I was over there. I know how to do it. I've done it before. It's no big deal. You just make an adjustment. You convince yourself it's all right. That's all. It's easy. You just slaughter them.

Sam Shepard

#3. I was born in 1946, so I was born on the tail end of when everything was deemed important. You made things to last. If you came from a poor family, there was only one can opener.

Patti Smith

#4. No matter what happens, I'm going to protect my kid.

Mindy McCready

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

Jeannette Walls

#6. I love memoirs and biographies, learning about other people's lives. Two of the ones that I loved so much were actually edited by the same person who edited my book, too. I loved 'Angela's Ashes.' I loved 'Glass Castle' so much.

Isabel Gillies

#7. When someone like myself points out the rather obvious and compelling evidence that God is cruel and unjust, because he visits suffering on innocent people of a scope and scale that would embarrass the most ambitious psychopath, we're told that? God is mysterious.

Sam Harris

#8. The Crown Prince tipped his head back to the sky and roared, and it was the battle cry of a god. Then the glass castle shattered.

Sarah J. Maas

#9. Each time I fail to think about death, I have the impression of cheating, of deceiving someone in me.

Emil Cioran

#10. Even when I'm sitting up in this glass castle, I still got my street soldiers telling me what's happening.

Tracy Morgan

#11. What is more refreshing than salads when your appetite seems to have deserted you.

Alexis Soyer

#12. It is a well- known fact that although the public is fine when taken individually, when it forms itself into large groups, it tends to act as though it has one partially consumed Pez tablet for a brain.

Dave Barry

#13. What did you do with memories, feelings, needs, that didn't belong anywhere?

Lisa Kleypas

#14. Kaltain flowed into the room, spreading her arms wide, and became shadowfire, became freedom and triumph, became a promise hissed in a dungeon beneath a glass castle:
Punish them all.

Sarah J. Maas

#15. Dramatics are what keep you in the seats.

Jerry Bruckheimer

#16. 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.

Jeannette Walls

#17. Michael Moore didn't have to worry that anyone would misinterpret the title of his film, 'Capitalism: A Love Story,' because in Hollywood, no one loves capitalism. That's too bad, because Hollywood is one of capitalism's greatest successes.

Alex Tabarrok

#18. Nigeria and Pakistan are two countries that have had a lot of trouble with polio. And part of the reason is that there's a lot of political unrest, and people really distrust what the government is doing. That has an effect on people's health, and it has an effect on the health of children.

Eula Biss

#19. Something evil dwells in this castle, something wicked enough to make the stars quake.

Sarah J. Maas

#20. At three in the morning the gaudy paint is off that old whore, the world, and she has no nose and a glass eye. Gaiety becomes hollow and brittle, as in Poe's castle surrounded by the Red Death. Horror is destroyed by boredom. Love is a dream.

Stephen King

#21. If the Vaults were the heart of Rifthold's underworld, then the glass castle was the soul of Adarlan's empire.

Sarah J. Maas

#22. 'The Glass Castle' by Jeannette Walls is the quintessential dysfunctional family.

Sara Shepard

#23. She looked defeated, a castle stormed, torn down, with no one living inside. She looked like a hollowed-out creature, only shell and no soul.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#24. She had seen hundreds of doors in the castle - doors of wood, of bronze, of glass - but never one of solid iron. This one was ancient, from a time when an iron door meant something. So was this supposed to keep someone out - or to keep something in? Celaena

Sarah J. Maas

#25. Yajna is duty to be performed, or service to be rendered, all twenty-four hours of the day.

Mahatma Gandhi