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“Mom gave me a startled look. I’d broken one of our unspoken rules: We were always supposed to pretend our life was one long and incredibly fun adventure.”
This theme is super relevant in this book because its one of the most profound in my opinion. Just the way that they actually live their lives, when I was reading the book it baffled me a lot that this was a real, true story, and that is how her parents actually acted. As a kid they were all impressionable and didn't question anything like they were taught to. Rex and Rose Mary dragged their children all across the country with no explanations, it was an "adventure". Rex pretty much lives by a fantasy, running around the country because the FBI are on to him. Rose Mary also lives in the constant fantasy where she thinks she is going to be such a great wealthy artist, but she has to start her career somewhere.

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"One evening in May, when  we'd been saving our money for almost nine months, I came home with a couple dollar I'd made babysitting and went into the bedroom to stash them in Oz. The pig was not on the old sewing machine. I began looking through all the junk in the bedroom and finally found Oz on the floor. I knew it was Dad, but at the same time, I couldn't believe he'd stoop this low. "
I think that moment in the book was really the last straw for Jeanette and Lori with their Dad. Lori was already planning on leaving to New York. At that point I don't think Jeanette was really concrete if she wanted to go too, but Rex stealing the money from Oz, was the last straw for her and made her realized that her father was a phony sham who just used them for money to fuel his raging alcoholism. That really snapped Jeanette and made her want to change her situation in life.

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"Brian and I became expert foragers. We picked crab apples and wild blackberries an pawpaws during the summer and fall, and we swiped ears of corn from Old Man Wilson's farm."
This is one of the many examples that show self-sufficiency by the kids in the book. As we all know a big struggle for Rex and Rose Mary was withholding enough money to be able to feed their kids. The kids had to become self-sufficient for themselves and attempt to scavenge food and be clever. The kids were also taught not to complain especially about the food, so they had to suck it up,   the only way they could learn was the hard way.

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"We started talking about some of Dad's great escapades: letting me pet the cheetah, taking us Demon Hunting, giving us starts for Christmas. "We should drink a toast to Rex," John said. Mom stared as the ceiling, miming perplexed thought. "I've got it". She held up her glass. "Life with your father was never boring".
I think that this is a final kind of forgiveness of Rex by the family, the reason they are toasting is because some years ago when they were still living in the Bronx was when Rex passed away. Although there was so many annoying and downright bad things that Rex did to everyone, they still came together on Thanksgiving and had a toast reminiscing on all of the good memories Rex gave them, in that moment it wasn't about the bad that Rex had done but rather remembering the good he to them while we was still on earth.

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"It was hard work but after a month we'd dug a hole deep enough for us to disappear in. One Dad had poured the foundation, we could help him frame. Since we couldn't afford the town's trash collection-fee, our garbage was really piling up. One day Dad told us to dump it in the hole. "But that's for the Glass Castle," I said. "It's a temporary measure," Dad told me."
This quote is just filled with all of the broken promises that Rex brings. One of the biggest broken promises in this book is the illusion of the Glass Castle that Rex is somehow going to fabricate this grand mansion of a house. The Glass Castle is a mere illusion that Rex has Jeanette and Brian knee deep into. The fact that Rex decides to just use the hole for their overflowing garbage really shows that Rex really did plan on building this whimsical building.

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"The next day when i got to the alley, the Mexicans girls were waiting for me. Before they could attack, Brian jumped out from behind a clump of sagebrush, waving a yucca branch. Brian was shorter than me and just as skinny. "Just back off now and everyone can walk away with all of their limbs still attached," Brian said. The Mexican girls stared at him before bursting into laughter. Then they surrounded him. Brian did fairly well fending them off until the branches broke ".
I think that his quote definitely shows an un-conditional brother-sister love, despite the Mexican girls being a lot bigger than Brian and also outnumbering both him and Jeanette, this shows an un-conditional love because despite the circumstances he braves up and attempts to defend his sister.