“I wondered if the fire had been out to get me. I wondered if all fire was related, like Dad said all humans were related, if the fire that had burned me that day while I cooked hot dogs was somehow connected to the fire I had flushed down the toilet and the fire burning at the hotel. I didn’t have the answers to those questions, but what I did know was that I lived in a world that that at any moment could erupt into fire. It was the sort of knowledge that kept you on your toes.”

American author and journalist

Jeannette Walls is an American author and journalist, best known for her memoir The Glass Castle and for her work as a former gossip columnist for MSNBC.com. She has 95 quotes on the site. The Glass Castle, published in 2005, recounts the unsettled, nomadic childhood she wrote about in memoir form. Walls has also been recognized with the Alex Award and the Christopher Award in 2006, and her writing is closely associated with personal narrative and family memory.