New Yorkers, I figured, just pretended to be unfriendly.
– Jeannette Walls
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- There is non who is unfriendly, even the person we may regard as unfriendly has a friend. Our mind is the only limitation and barrier to people – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- We pretended to be of mud instead of stars. We pretended not to fly. – Shana Abe
- The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79. – Douglas Adams
- That was the thing to remember about all monsters, They love to frightenpeople, but the minute you stare them down, they turn tail and run. – Jeannette Walls
- People are like animals. Some are happiest penned in, some need to roam free. You go to recognize what’s in her nature and accept it. – Jeannette Walls
- Life there was hard and it made people hard. – Jeannette Walls
- One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by. – Jeannette Walls
- She had her addictions and one of them was reading. – Jeannette Walls
- People worried too much about their children. Suffering when you’re young is good for you. It immunized your body and soul… – Jeannette Walls
- Fussing over children who cry only encourages them. That’s positive reinforcement for negative behavior. – Jeannette Walls
- As awful as he could be, I always knew he loved me in a way no one else ever had. – Jeannette Walls
- You’ll never make a fortune working for the boss man – Jeannette Walls
- Most times when folks ask for advice, they already know what they should do. They just want to hear it from someone else. – Jeannette Walls Author
- It’s the Joshua tree’s struggle that gives it its beauty. – Jeannette Walls
- If you want to be treated like a mother, act like one. – Jeannette Walls
- It’s really not that hard to put food on the table if that’s what you decide to do. – Jeannette Walls
- Horses were never wrong. They always did what they did for a reason, and it was up to you to figure it out. – Jeannette Walls
- You’re not supposed to laugh at your own father. Ever. – Jeannette Walls
- Life’s too short to care about what other people think. Besides, they should accept us for who we are – Jeannette Walls
- One of the ways to discover our toughness and resiliency is to look back at where we come from. (from Amazon description) – Jeannette Walls
- Nobody’s perfect. We’re all just one step up from the beasts and one step down from the angels. – Jeannette Walls
- Nowadays some people have becomeintimate with thoughtsbut unfriendly with the heartThey have become a clueless eyethat does not see itself – Santosh Lamichhane
- This world made by humans for themselves is most unfriendly towards humans. What irony. – Pooja Perumal
- The walls that we build for self-protection become the walls of self-imprisonment later!!!! – Harrish Sairaman
- The only walls which bind us and stop us achieving our hearts desires are the walls we build for ourselves – Treasa Ni Ghulaa Clain
- Walls get made, walls crumble, buildings get built, buildings collapse, memories get made, memories last. – Jill Telford
- Silence has built walls, walls that I attempt to break by pedaling faster, only to be imprisoned a hundred feet down the road. – Doug Cooper
- If walls could talk – scratch that, if walls could make sarcastic comments… well, things would be interesting. – Meghan Apriceno Carr
- We live in a world that has walls and those walls need to be guarded by men with guns. – Aaron Sorkin
- I hung up the phone, jubilant, and threw myself into a wall, then pretended to be getting electrocuted. I do this when I’m very happy. – Dave Eggers
- What is fear but that -˜thing’ that we believed to be as powerful as it pretended to be. – Craig D Lounsbrough
- I think Dad wanted to feel the pain, to feel his body cry, an urgent reminder that he was still alive. I pretended not to notice. – Raquel Cepeda
- Imagine fantasy and pretend as neither fantastical nor pretended…..and then believe it. – Richelle E Goodrich
- Had pretended to be Abbadon of the Dark, when always he had been working for the Light. – Melissa de la Cruz
- Still enveloped in a blanket of dreams he (life) continued to lie still, pretended as if he was in a deep slumber. – Suman Pokhrel
- To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend. – Jacques Derrida
- I pretended I had urgent business at the prosecutor’s table which, in one of The System’s obvious tells, was always millimeters from the jury box. – Sergio de la Pava
- We pretended she’d only gotten lost in the colors of fall.Piper – T Greenwood
- As I usually do when I want to get rid of someone whose conversation bores me, I pretended to agree. – Albert Camus
- She was strength and power and so many things he’d pretended for twelve years he didn’t miss, didn’t need. – Natalie J Damschroder