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“As awful as he could be, I always knew he loved me in a way no one else ever had.”
― Jeannette Walls
No matter how many times Jeanette's dad screwed her over Jeannette always forgave him. When he stole her money to buy alcohol she forgave him every time. In the interview we watched Jeannette talks about how she still doesn't hold a grudge on any of her family members today.

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“You didn't need a college degree to become one of the people who knew what was really going on. If you paid attention, you could pick things up on your own.”
― Jeannette Walls
This quote shows that Jeannette had already come of age even before college. Since she was very young she knew how to take care of herself and pretty much survive on her own because in her situation she had come of age so early because she didn't really have a choice.

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“We had some times, didn't we?'
'We did.'
'Never did build that Glass Castle.'
'No. But we had fun planning it.”
― Jeannette Walls
As a young kid Jeanette's dad always told her and her siblings that he was going to build them a glass castle to live in one day. They would fantasies about the house and how beautiful it was going to be. As Jeannette grows up she started to realize they were never going to build the glass castle and it was just another lie her dad told her.

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“If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim”
― Jeannette Walls
This quote shows that Jeannette had to figure thing out on her own. If Jeannette wanted to eat food she couldn't rely on her parents to do that because her dad spent all the families money on alcohol, so she had to find her own ways to get food. She would dumpster dive or have to save up spare change to buy a candy bar or something

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“You should never hate anyone, even your worst enemies. Everyone has something good about them. You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.”
― Jeannette Walls
Jeannette whole life her mom just tells her to see the good in every situation. When she gets jumped at school she doesn't even tell her mom because she wasn't in the mood to hear her mom tell her to just see the good in it instead of trying to help her solve the problem. Later in the book Jeannette says how her mom couldn't even take care of herself how could you expect her to take care of anybody else, but Jeannette accepts that and doesn't get upset about it.

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“Dad kept telling me that he loved me, that he never would have let me drown, but you can’t cling to the side your whole life.”
― Jeannette Walls
This quote shows how Jeannette could even love her dad even after he almost let her drown multiple times. She had a special connection with her dad and no matter how many times he did her wrong she still loved him.