--- title: "11 Glass Castle Quotes by 6 authors" description: "Browse 11 Glass Castle quotes by 6 authors. Discover the best Glass Castle sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e80/sara-shepard-1948_castle_the-glass-castle-by-jeannette-walls-is-t_1081055.png" --- > ['The Glass Castle' by Jeannette Walls is the quintessential dysfunctional family.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-shepard/the-glass-castle-by-jeannette-walls-is-the-quintessential/) [Sara Shepard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sara-shepard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e80/sara-shepard-1948_castle_the-glass-castle-by-jeannette-walls-is-t_1081055.png) > [I never thought 'The Glass Castle' would be a movie. It's just too complicated.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeannette-walls/i-never-thought-the-glass-castle-would-be-a-movie-it-s-just-too/) [Jeannette Walls](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeannette-walls/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b06/jeannette-walls-1378_castle_i-never-thought-the-glass-castle-would-b_1935306.png) > [Even when I'm sitting up in this glass castle, I still got my street soldiers telling me what's happening.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tracy-morgan/even-when-i-m-sitting-up-in-this-glass-castle-i-still-got-my-street/) [Tracy Morgan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tracy-morgan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5f6/tracy-morgan-1210_castle_even-when-i-m-sitting-up-in-this-glass-c_1016917.jpg) > [“Sad state to spend your life in. Being afraid of your own self." Rex Walls, The Glass Castle”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeanette-walls/sad-state-to-spend-your-life-in-being-afraid-of-your-own-self-rex-2/) Jeanette Walls [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/43a/jeanette-walls-67312_life_sad-state-to-spend-your-life-in-being-af_2154082.jpg) > [“It was different than when the king had sent her off to Bellhaven or to some lord’s estate. Here, now, in Rifthold,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-j-maas/it-was-different-than-when-the-king-had-sent-her-off-to-bellhaven-or/) [Sarah J. Maas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-j-maas/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/334/sarah-j-maas-58_glass-castle_it-was-different-than-when-the-king-had_182097.png) > [“I have read that long ago there was a land of glass castles that sank beneath the sea. It was not called…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/claudia-putnam/i-have-read-that-long-ago-there-was-a-land-of-glass-castles-that-sank/) Claudia Putnam [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/21f/claudia-putnam-81962_fiction_i-have-read-that-long-ago-there-was-a-la_884800.jpg) > [“Oath-breaker. Liar. Traitor. Chaol was all of those things now, but not to Dorian. Never to his true king. “Take out the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-j-maas/oath-breaker-liar-traitor-chaol-was-all-of-those-things-now-but-not/) [Sarah J. Maas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-j-maas/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d24/sarah-j-maas-58_dorian_oath-breaker-liar-traitor-chaol-was-all_317672.jpg) > [“Go where you will, but if I were you, I’d head north, and stick to the forest. Stay out of the mountains.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-j-maas/go-where-you-will-but-if-i-were-you-i-d-head-north-and-stick-to-the/) [Sarah J. Maas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-j-maas/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8bc/sarah-j-maas-58_aelin-galathynius_go-where-you-will-but-if-i-were-you-i-d_1444018.jpg) > [“The room became cinders. Kaltain pushed the chains off her as though they were cobwebs and arose. She disrobed as she walked…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-j-maas/the-room-became-cinders-kaltain-pushed-the-chains-off-her-as-though/) [Sarah J. Maas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-j-maas/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5fa/sarah-j-maas-58_glass-castle_the-room-became-cinders-kaltain-pushed-t_1222047.jpg) > [“The ship began moving. And Chaol—the man she hated and loved so much that she could hardly think around him—just stood there,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-j-maas/the-ship-began-moving-and-chaol-the-man-she-hated-and-loved-so-much/) [Sarah J. Maas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-j-maas/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/621/sarah-j-maas-58_beyond-the-horizon_the-ship-began-moving-and-chaol-the-man_2632877.png) > [“When Dad wasn’t telling us about all the amazing things he had already done, he was telling us about the wondrous things…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeannette-walls/when-dad-wasn-t-telling-us-about-all-the-amazing-things-he-had/) [Jeannette Walls](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeannette-walls/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/207/jeannette-walls-1378_amazing-things_when-dad-wasn-t-telling-us-about-all-the_3098054.png) ## Top authors on Glass Castle - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b021/author-sarah-j-maas-83224.jpg) Sarah J. Maas 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/glass-castle/sarah-j-maas/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/glass-castle/#itemlist", "name": "Glass Castle Quotes", "numberOfItems": 11, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "'The Glass Castle' by Jeannette Walls is the quintessential dysfunctional family.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Sara Shepard" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-shepard/the-glass-castle-by-jeannette-walls-is-the-quintessential/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e80/sara-shepard-1948_castle_the-glass-castle-by-jeannette-walls-is-t_1081055.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e80/sara-shepard-1948_castle_the-glass-castle-by-jeannette-walls-is-t_1081055.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e80/sara-shepard-1948_castle_the-glass-castle-by-jeannette-walls-is-t_1081055.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“'The Glass Castle' by Jeannette Walls is the quintessential dysfunctional family.” — Sara Shepard", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I never thought 'The Glass Castle' would be a movie. 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Being afraid of your own self.\" Rex Walls, The Glass Castle”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Jeanette Walls" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeanette-walls/sad-state-to-spend-your-life-in-being-afraid-of-your-own-self-rex-2/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/43a/jeanette-walls-67312_life_sad-state-to-spend-your-life-in-being-af_2154082.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/43a/jeanette-walls-67312_life_sad-state-to-spend-your-life-in-being-af_2154082.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/43a/jeanette-walls-67312_life_sad-state-to-spend-your-life-in-being-af_2154082.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Sad state to spend your life in. 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It was not called Atlantis, but Lyonesse. This happened before history and across the ocean, but when I was little I wondered about that place, how it could be so beautiful and so lost. Sometimes it seemed that the land around my New England home was like that flooded country, with mud where the streets of gold should be and mayflies swarming where there should be lovely fishes, but here and there a shard of crystal to call the heart to beauty. --\"Wetlands,\" in Phoebe.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Claudia Putnam" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/claudia-putnam/i-have-read-that-long-ago-there-was-a-land-of-glass-castles-that-sank/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/21f/claudia-putnam-81962_fiction_i-have-read-that-long-ago-there-was-a-la_884800.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/21f/claudia-putnam-81962_fiction_i-have-read-that-long-ago-there-was-a-la_884800.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/21f/claudia-putnam-81962_fiction_i-have-read-that-long-ago-there-was-a-la_884800.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I have read that long ago there was a land of glass castles that sank beneath the sea. 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Keep going until you hit Terrasen.” That had never been part of the plan. “But—but the king—Vernon—” “The King of Adarlan is dead,” Manon said. The world stopped. “Aelin Galathynius killed him and shattered his glass castle.” Elide covered her mouth with a hand, shaking her head. Aelin … Aelin … “She was aided,” Manon went on, “by Prince Aedion Ashryver.” Elide began sobbing. “And rumor has it Lord Ren Allsbrook is working in the North as a rebel.” Elide buried her face in her hands. Then there was a hard, iron-tipped hand on her shoulder. A tentative touch. “Hope,” Manon said quietly. Elide lowered her hands and found the witch smiling at her. Barely a tilt to her lips, but—a smile, soft and lovely. Elide wondered if Manon even knew she was doing it.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Sarah J. 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Kaltain pushed the chains off her as though they were cobwebs and arose. She disrobed as she walked out of the room. Let them see what had been done to her, the body they’d wasted. She made it two steps into the hall before they noticed her, and beheld the black flames rippling off her. Death, devourer of worlds. The hallway turned to black dust. She strode toward the chamber where the screaming was loudest, where female cries leaked through the iron door. The iron did not heat, did not bend to her magic. So she melted an archway through the stones. Monsters and witches and men and demons whirled. Kaltain flowed into the room, spreading her arms wide, and became shadowfire, became freedom and triumph, became a promise hissed in a dungeon beneath a glass castle: Punish them all.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Sarah J. 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And Chaol—the man she hated and loved so much that she could hardly think around him—just stood there, watching her go. The current grabbed the ship, and the city began to diminish. The ocean breeze soon caressed her neck, but she never stopped staring at Chaol. She stared toward him until the glass castle was a sparkling speck in the distance. She stared toward him until there was only gleaming ocean around her. She stared toward him until the sun dropped beyond the horizon and a smattering of stars hung overhead. It was only when her eyelids drooped and she swayed on her feet that Celaena stopped staring toward Chaol.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Sarah J. 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Maas", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 11, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“When Dad wasn’t telling us about all the amazing things he had already done, he was telling us about the wondrous things he was going to do. Like build the Glass Castle. All of Dad’s engineering skills and mathematical genius were coming together in one special project: a great big house he was going to build for us in the desert. It would have a glass ceiling and thick glass walls and even a glass staircase. The Glass Castle would have solar cells on the top that would catch the sun’s rays and convert them into electricity for heating and cooling and running all the appliances. It would even have its own water-purification system. Dad had worked out the architecture and the floor plans and most of the mathematical calculations. He carried around the blueprints for the Glass Castle wherever we went, and sometimes he’d pull them out and let us work on the design for our rooms. All we had to do was find gold, Dad said, and we were on the verge of that. 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