“I stumbled from the dark woods of my own, and my family's, and my country's past, holding in my hands these truths:… — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
“Life is not a series of isolated ponds and puddles; life is this river you see below, before you. It flows from… — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
“For a quick moment, I saw Grandma as she saw herself: a decent woman whom God, for unfathomable reasons, had chosen to… — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
I am not a smart man, particularly, but one day, at long last, I stumbled from the dark woods of my own,… — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
“Life is a river," she repeated. "Only in the most literal sense are we born on the same day we leave our… — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
“It is all connected Dominick," she said. "Life is not a series of isolated ponds & puddles; life is this river you… — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
“[Writing about themselves] gives them wings, so that they can rise above the confounding maze of their lives and, from that perspective,… — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
“America's been living on borrowed time all these years... Playing the world's whore, wallowing in our greed. Now we're going to pay… — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
“I wonder what my baby is thinking at this moment," he called, rubbing his stomach with his hands. What I was thinking… — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
“That time we separated was my idea. I thought, well, I'm fifty years old and there might be someone else out there.… — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
“One thing I’ve learned in my program is that guilt is a wasted emotion, you know? Look back on the past but… — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
“I am not a smart man, particularly, but one day, at long last, I stumbled from the dark woods of my own,… — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
“Sometimes we want something to be true so badly that we convince ourselves that it is true.” — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing. — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
But I think this: that whatever prices I've paid, whatever sorrows I shoulder, well, I have blessings, too. Not just my family now, but… — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
“why would white dudes want to change things when they held all the cards?” — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
“And in taking on the subject of themselves-making themselves vulnerable to the unseen reader-they have exchanged powerlessness for for the power that comes with… — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
“People had always amazed him, he began. But they amazed him more since the sickness. For as long as the two of them had… — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
“So I got my stuff and the girl at the register puts these other things in my bag, too. Little free samples: gum and… — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
What if I don’t like adventure? Then cultivate a taste for it. Take a chance. That’s how you grow. — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
“Guess what?' I said. 'I have a psychic.' His head tilted questioningly, birdlike. A sidekick?” — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat. — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
“What I remembered about those seesaw rides was the way Thomas would get mad at me, midride, and evacuate. Send me crashing back down… — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
