Glass Castle Quotes

11 quotes from 6 authors

The memoir ‘The Glass Castle’ has sparked debate and admiration, and these eleven excerpts from six writers explore its themes of resilience, family, and imagination. Whether you’re revisiting Jeannette Walls’s story or hearing a fresh take, the quotes illuminate the book’s emotional depth and its impact on readers.

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

Sara Shepard

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I never thought 'The Glass Castle' would be a movie. It's just too complicated.

Jeannette Walls

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

Tracy Morgan

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“Sad state to spend your life in. Being afraid of your own self." Rex Walls, The Glass Castle”

Jeanette Walls

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“It was different than when the king had sent her off to Bellhaven or to some lord’s estate. Here, now, in Rifthold,…

Sarah J. Maas

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“I have read that long ago there was a land of glass castles that sank beneath the sea. It was not called…

Claudia Putnam

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“Oath-breaker. Liar. Traitor. Chaol was all of those things now, but not to Dorian. Never to his true king. “Take out the…

Sarah J. Maas

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“Go where you will, but if I were you, I’d head north, and stick to the forest. Stay out of the mountains.…

Sarah J. Maas

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“The room became cinders. Kaltain pushed the chains off her as though they were cobwebs and arose. She disrobed as she walked…

Sarah J. Maas

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“The ship began moving. And Chaol—the man she hated and loved so much that she could hardly think around him—just stood there,…

Sarah J. Maas

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“When Dad wasn’t telling us about all the amazing things he had already done, he was telling us about the wondrous things…

Jeannette Walls

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