“Love is like breathing. You take it in and let it out.”
―
Wally Lamb,
She's Come Undone
“Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.” ― E.L. Doctorow, Writers At Work: The Paris Review Interviews, 2nd Series
“Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.” ― Wally Lamb, She's Come Undone
“I am not a smart man, particularly, but one day, at long last, I stumbled from the dark woods of my own, and my family's, and my country's past, holding in my hands these truths: that love grows from the rich loam of forgiveness; that mongrels make good dogs; that the evidence of God exists in the roundness of things. This much, at least, I've figured out. I know this much is true.” ― Wally Lamb, I Know This Much Is True
“I think... the secret is to just settle for the shape of your life takes...Instead of you know, always waiting and wishing for what might make you happy.” ― Wally Lamb, She's Come Undone
“But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?” ― Wally Lamb, I Know This Much Is True
“I know it's a crock of shit. I ain't offering you happily-ever-after. I'm offering you... happily-maybe-sometimes-ever-after. Sort of. You know, with warts and shit." -Thayer” ― Wally Lamb, She's Come Undone
“With destruction comes renovation.” ― Wally Lamb, I Know This Much Is True
“I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.” ― Wally Lamb
“Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.” ― Wally Lamb, I Know This Much Is True
“If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.” ― Wally Lamb, She's Come Undone
“The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.” ― Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed
“Look, don't just stare at the pages," I used to tell my students. "Become the characters. Live inside the book.” ― Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed
“It was a matter of perspective, I began to see. The whole world was crazy; I'd flattered myself by assuming I was a semifinalist."-- Dolores Price” ― Wally Lamb, She's Come Undone
“Life seemed nearest to acceptable at four A.M.” ― Wally Lamb, She's Come Undone
“This was what could happen to you: you could end up this far from where you thought you were going.” ― Wally Lamb, She's Come Undone
“I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.” ― Wally Lamb, She's Come Undone
“We are like water, aren’t we? We can be fluid, flexible when we have to be. But strong and destructive, too.” And something else, I think to myself. Like water, we mostly follow the path of least resistance.” ― Wally Lamb, We Are Water
“I thought about how love was always the thing that did that - smashed into you, left you raw. The deeper you loved, the deeper it hurt.” ― Wally Lamb, She's Come Undone
“Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.” ― E.L. Doctorow, Writers At Work: The Paris Review Interviews, 2nd Series
“Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.” ― Wally Lamb, She's Come Undone
“I am not a smart man, particularly, but one day, at long last, I stumbled from the dark woods of my own, and my family's, and my country's past, holding in my hands these truths: that love grows from the rich loam of forgiveness; that mongrels make good dogs; that the evidence of God exists in the roundness of things. This much, at least, I've figured out. I know this much is true.” ― Wally Lamb, I Know This Much Is True
“I think... the secret is to just settle for the shape of your life takes...Instead of you know, always waiting and wishing for what might make you happy.” ― Wally Lamb, She's Come Undone
“But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?” ― Wally Lamb, I Know This Much Is True
“I know it's a crock of shit. I ain't offering you happily-ever-after. I'm offering you... happily-maybe-sometimes-ever-after. Sort of. You know, with warts and shit." -Thayer” ― Wally Lamb, She's Come Undone
“With destruction comes renovation.” ― Wally Lamb, I Know This Much Is True
“I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.” ― Wally Lamb
“Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.” ― Wally Lamb, I Know This Much Is True
“If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.” ― Wally Lamb, She's Come Undone
“The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.” ― Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed
“Look, don't just stare at the pages," I used to tell my students. "Become the characters. Live inside the book.” ― Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed
“It was a matter of perspective, I began to see. The whole world was crazy; I'd flattered myself by assuming I was a semifinalist."-- Dolores Price” ― Wally Lamb, She's Come Undone
“Life seemed nearest to acceptable at four A.M.” ― Wally Lamb, She's Come Undone
“This was what could happen to you: you could end up this far from where you thought you were going.” ― Wally Lamb, She's Come Undone
“I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.” ― Wally Lamb, She's Come Undone
“We are like water, aren’t we? We can be fluid, flexible when we have to be. But strong and destructive, too.” And something else, I think to myself. Like water, we mostly follow the path of least resistance.” ― Wally Lamb, We Are Water
“I thought about how love was always the thing that did that - smashed into you, left you raw. The deeper you loved, the deeper it hurt.” ― Wally Lamb, She's Come Undone
