5 Quotes & Sayings By Jeanette Walls

Jeanette Walls is the author of The Glass Castle, a memoir that has been translated into 15 languages and was a finalist for the National Book Award. She is also the author of The Goldfinch, which was recently made into a movie starring Nicole Kidman.

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I loved college... I knew exactly why I was there and what I wanted to get out of it. I wished I could take every course in the curriculum and read every book in the library. Sometimes after I finished a particularly good book, I had the urge to get the library card, find our who else had read the book, and track them down to talk about it. Jeanette Walls
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Years from now, when all the junk they got is broken and long forgotten, you'll still have your stars. Jeanette Walls
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... I hadn't been paying attention to things like the sunrise, but that old sun had been coming up anyway. It didn't really care how I felt, it was going to rise and set regardless of whether I noticed it, and if I was going to enjoy it, that was up to me. Jeanette Walls
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So that’s why I’m such a big fan of storytelling. I think the most important thing is empathy. And it’s less about ‘those people’. Because I think we’re all ‘those people’. Jeanette Walls