3 Quotes & Sayings By Dolores Hitchens

Dolores Hitchens, author of “The Glass Castle” (2010), is the daughter of renowned author John Steinbeck. The book won numerous awards including the 2011 National Book Award for Young People's Literature and the 2012 Michael L. Printz Award. Her father was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his novel "The Grapes of Wrath." Dolores is also the granddaughter of Jack Kerouac, the renowned Beat Generation writer.

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Who was it had said when you fall in love all the popular songs suddenly seemed to mean something. Dolores Hitchens
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There were the Newport hills, far up the bay, marked now by a rim of lights. There was the water, a blue shimmer under the sun, a black mirror after dark, somehow alive, a living thing that tied it all together, the houses hugging the rim and the people in them, drawn there to be beside the bay. The water had been there in the beginning, the beautiful bay all alone; and now the houses had crowded about it, hemming it in a row of stucco and brick and white clapboard. Someday the bay would be alone again. When The Thing went off. When all of the houses would be blown away. There would be floating rubble, a border of broken trash for a little while. . Dolores Hitchens