Amber Reu > Amber's Quotes

“She thought about him all the time - not so much about Doug the individual, but rather about the nature of love, and the shock of learning how quickly it could disappear.”
― J. Courtney Sullivan, Commencement

“We don't always do the things our parents want us to do, but it is their mistake if they can't find a way to love us anyway.”
― J. Courtney Sullivan, Commencement

“Books were an antidepressant, a powerful SSRI.”
― Meg Wolitzer, The Female Persuasion

“Novels had accompanied her throughout her childhood, that period of protracted isolation, and they would probably do so during whatever lay ahead in adulthood.”
― Meg Wolitzer, The Female Persuasion

“Things usually work out in the end."
"What if they don't?"
"That just means you haven't come to the end yet.”
― Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle

“One time I saw a tiny Joshua tree sapling growing not too far from the old tree. I wanted to dig it up and replant it near our house. I told Mom that I would protect it from the wind and water it every day so that it could grow nice and tall and straight. Mom frowned at me. "You'd be destroying what makes it special," she said. "It's the Joshua tree's struggle that gives it its beauty.”
― Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle

“If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim”
― Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle

“I lived in a world that at any moment could erupt into fire. It was the sort of knowledge that kept you on your toes.”
― Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle