It’s really not that hard to put food on the table if that’s what you decide to do.
We’re stronger than we realize.
When I got a little older, I started writing for the high school newspaper, ‘The Maroon Wave,’ and that’s when I fell in love with journalism.
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.
Whenever I’m reading a book I enjoy, I always develop a mental list of the people I want to share it with.
If you had weak eyes, they needed exercise to get strong. Glasses were like crutches. They prevented people with feeble eyes from seeing the world on their own.
No child is born a delinquent. They only became that way if nobody loved them when they were kids. Unloved children grow up to be serial murderers or alcoholics.
Memoir is about handing over your life to someone and saying, This is what I went through, this is who I am, and maybe you can learn something from it.
I became known as Lily Casey, the mustang-breaking, poker-playing, horse-race-winning schoolmarm of Coconino County, and it wasn’t half bad to be in place where no one had a problem with a woman having a moniker like that.
I’m a big believer in luck – the harder you work, the luckier you become.
She was developing what Mom called a bit of a sarcastic streak.
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.
When people kill themselves, they think they’re ending the pain, but all they’re doing is passing it on to those they leave behind.
Sometimes something catastrophic can occur in a split second that changes a person’s life forever; other times one minor incident can lead to another and then another and another, eventually setting off just as big a change in a body’s life.
But no matter how much planning you do, one tiny miscalculation, one moment of distraction, can end it all in an instant.
The fact is, you don’t love me, and you haven’t destroyed me. You don’t have what it takes to do that.
My advice to anyone is to figure out what you’re good at – what it is that you love doing the most in life – and figure out a way to make a living from it.
I found out that people are incredibly compassionate and kind. It really changed my view of the world.
Mom always said people worried too much about their children. Suffering when you are young is good for you, she said. It immunized your body and your soul.
You’ll never make a fortune working for the boss man.