Jeannette Walls Quotes
The Road Was Called Agnes Weeps, After The Town's First Schoolteacher, Who Had Burst Into Tears When She Saw How Plunging And Twisting The Road Was And Realized How Remote The Town Must Be. But From The First Moment I Laid Eyes On It, I Loved That Road. I Thought Of It As A Winding Staircase Taking Me Out Of The Traffic Jams, News Bulletins, Bureaucrats, Air-raid Sirens And Locked Doors Of City Life. Jim Said We Should Rename The Road Lilly Sings.
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