The Silver Star Quotes

“Don’t be afraid of your dark places,” Mom told her. “If you can shine a light on them, you’ll find treasure there.”
― Jeannette Walls, The Silver Star

“What I do know is that wondering why you survived don’t help you survive.”
― Jeannette Walls, The Silver Star

“What struck me most was his crooked grin, like he saw the world in his own special way and got a kick out of it.”
― Jeannette Walls, The Silver Star

“I'm none too big on giving advice,'
Aunt Al said. 'Most times when folks ask for advice, they already know what they should do. They just want to hear it from someone else.”
― Jeannette Walls, The Silver Star

“They're so weird and so beautiful," she said.

"Like you," I said.

I meant it as a joke, but Liz nodded. She felt that she was sort of like an emu herself, she said. Maybe that was why she'd had flying dreams ever since she was a little girl -- at heart, she was an emu. She was sure the emus also dreamed of flying. It was another thing they had in common. Both she and the emus wanted to fly -- they just didn't have the wings they wanted.”
― Jeannette Walls, The Silver Star

“Don´t be afraid of your dark places, Mom told her. If you can shine a light on them, you´ll find treasure there”
― Jeannette Walls, The Silver Star

“Don’t be someone else’s little cheerleader”, Mom said. “Be the star of your own show. Even if there’s no audience.”
― Jeannette Walls, The Silver Star

“Job, chapter fourteen, verse seven,” Aunt Al said. “ ‘For there is hope for a tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, and that its tender shoots will not cease.’ ”
― Jeannette Walls, The Silver Star

“The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple. —Oscar Wilde”
― Jeannette Walls, The Silver Star

“If you went back far enough, Uncle Tinsley went on, just about”
― Jeannette Walls, The Silver Star