“It got so cold in the house that icicles hung from the kitchen ceiling, the water in the sink turned into a solid block of ice, and the dirty dishes were stuck there as if they’d been cemented in place. Even the pan of water that we kept in the living room to wash up in usually had a layer of ice on it. We walked around the house wearing our coats and wrapped in blankets. We wore our coats to bed, too. There was no stove in the bedroom and no matter how many blankets I piled on top of myself, I still felt cold. . . . We fought over who got to sleep with the dogs.”
—Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle
