Glass Castle Quotes

“Later that night, Dad stopped the car out in the middle of the desert, and we slept under the stars. We had no pillows, but Dad said that was part of his plan. He was teaching us to have good posture. The Indians didn’t use pillows, either, he explained, and look how straight they stood. We did have our scratchy army-surplus blankets, so we spread them out and lay there, looking up at the field of stars. I told Lori how lucky we were to be sleeping out under the sky like Indians.
“We could live like this forever,” I said.
“I think we’re going to,” she said. Page 18
Jeannette and her family left abruptly so they only grab necessity’s; that is why they didn’t have pillows. Her Dad just went with what he had so to not scare the kids from there poverty life he said that was part of his plan. At the end of the passage when Jeannette and Lori are talking Jeannette says, “We could live like this forever,” with the response from Lori saying “I think we’re going to.” Since Jeannette was younger than Lori she didn’t get the concept that they were poor and fleeting because of the money they owed. She thinks that this is some sort of an adventure. I think that Lori thought that too until Jeannette was talking about living on the run forever. Realization hit Lori that they might be traveling and running from the government forever. Soon enough they would all figure out that they were going to be moving from town to town so quickly you would barely have time to make friends.

“While we were in Midland, Mom painted dozens of variations and studies of the Joshua tree. We’d go with her and she’d give us art lessons. One time I saw a tiny Joshua tree sapling growing not too far from the old tree. I wanted to dig it up and replant it near our house. I told Mom that I would protect it from the wind and water it every day so that it could grow nice and tall and straight. Mom