The Glass Castle Characterization
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- Rex
- "Damn, honey," he said. "You busted your snot locker pretty good." pg. 31
- "Your mother should have taken you to that witch doctor the day you got burned," Dad said, "not to these heads-up-their-asses med-school quacks." pg. 13
- Rosemary
- “Mom frowned at me. ‘You’d be destroying what makes it special’ she said, ‘It’s the Joshua tree’s struggle that gives it its beauty’.” pg. 38
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- “‘Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy,’ Mom told me. ‘You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more.‘” pg. 129
- Brain
- "Just back off now, and everyone can walk away with all their limbs still attached," Brian said" pg. 45
- It's really not that hard to put food on the table ... if ... you decide to" pg. 288
- "When Dad wasn’t telling us about all the amazing things he had already done, he was telling us about the wondrous things he was going to do. Like build the Glass Castle. All of Dad’s engineering skills and mathematical genius were coming together in one special project: a great big house he was going to build for us in the desert" pg. 25"I wondered if [Dad] was remembering how he, too, had left Welch full of vinegar at age seventeen and just as convinced as I was now that he’d never return. I wondered if he was hoping that his favorite girl would come back, or if he was hoping that, unlike him, she would make it out for good" pg. 241“We should drink a toast to Rex,” John said. Mom stared at the ceiling, miming perplexed thought. “I’ve got it.” She held up her glass. “Life with your father was never boring" pg. 288
- Lori
- "That'll make Mom think we're taking Dad's side," she said. "It would only make it worse. Let them work it out." pg. 70
- "I wonder what life will be like now," I said to Lori. "The same," she said. "He tried stopping before, but it never lasted." "This time it will." "How do you know?" "It's his present to me." pg. 118
- “Until then, when I thought of writers, what first came to mind was Mom, hunched over her typewriter, clattering away on her novels and plays and philosophies of life and occasionally receiving a personalized rejection letter"."She snuggled into bed with them, looking up from time totime, saying she was sorry, she knew she should be doing somethingmore productive, but like Dad, she had her addictions, and one of themwas reading" pg. 168"Because we never subscribed to newspapers or magazines, I'd never known what was going on in the world, except for the skewed version of events we got from Mom and Dad". pg. 205
- Jeanette
- “One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by.” pg. 168
- "Out of the corner of my eye, I saw a small, grimy hand reach up a few inches from my face and grab a handful of cubes. I heard a loud crunching sound and looked down. It was Brian, eating the ice." pg. 10"Besides," Dad said, "Brian's head is so hard, I think the floor took more damage than he did."Brian thought that was hilarious and just laughed and laughed" pg. 13"She told me we could always get another cat, and now Quixote was going to be a wild cat, which was much more fun than being a house cat. Brian, afraid that Dad might tossJuju out the window as well, held the dog tight" pg. 18
- Maureen
- "Where Dad?" Maureen asked all the time" pg. 67
- "Then they flew at each other, tussling and flailing and pulling hair, locked together, with Brian and me cheering on Lori until we woke up Uncle Stanley, who staggered into the room and pushed them apart" pg. 147."Shortly after we moved in, Mom, Lori, and I measured one another and tried to make our own dresses" pg. 153."Lori was the most obsessive reader" pg. 168.
- "Jeannette, you're so focused it's scary." Pg. 195"Jeannette, I'm disappointed in you," she said. "You should show more compassion" pg. 83"Once he forgot to take the key, and when he returned, he made a big point of counting the rings in front of me. It was his way of letting me know he didn't trust me in the slightest" pg. 215
- “I lived in a world that at any moment could erupt into fire. It was the sort of knowledge that kept you on your toes.” pg. 34
- "Maureen always had plenty to eat, since she had made friends throughout the neighborhood and would show up at their houses around dinnertime" pg. 173"At times I felt that I was failing Maureen, like I wasn't keeping my promise that I'd protect her—the promise I'd made to her whenI held her on the way home from the hospital after she'd been born" pg. 206"A lot of her friends were Pentecostals whose parents held that Mom and Dad were disgracefully irresponsible and took it upon themselves to save Maureen's soul" pg. 206
- "She kept on saying that the rat was coming to get her" pg. 156
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