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There was no shorthand for "I'm sorry." You were obliged to speak those two words. — Wally Lamb

I wasn't a cynic; I was a banged-up realist. — Wally Lamb

Your museum of pain. Your sanctuary of justifiable indignation. — Wally Lamb

As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow. — Wally Lamb

Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that. — Wally Lamb

It is important for children to learn that they are the sum of those who have come before them. — Wally Lamb

That's the problem with survival of the fittest ... the corpse at your fett. That little inconvenience. — Wally Lamb

All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth. — Wally Lamb

If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it. — Wally Lamb

I celebrate art that shakes complacency by the shoulders and shouts, 'Wake up! — Wally Lamb

Who gets the change?" the clerk asked. "You or ... your fella?"
Oh, he's not my boyfriend," I said. "He's my mother. — Wally Lamb

Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out. — Wally Lamb

That's often the case, of course - that creation and madness begin to dance with each other. — Wally Lamb

It is the firstborn's burden to unravel the knots that younger brothers make. — Wally Lamb

You can be two things if you're a woman, Dolores. Betty Crocker or a floozy. Just remember your place - even if it kills you. — Wally Lamb

A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity. — Wally Lamb

A fiction writer weaves a fabric of lies in hopes of revealing deeper human truths. — Wally Lamb

Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed. — Wally Lamb

What if I don't like adventure?
Then cultivate a taste for it. Take a chance. That's how you grow. — Wally Lamb

She's got a certain feisty charm for a racist. Not to mention all those great dead-animal stories. — Wally Lamb

Maybe that's what love is. Having someone who guides you through different experiences, coaxes you to try news things but still makes you feel safe. — Wally Lamb

Just don't ever let it happen to you, Dolores. Let people just shit all over you. Don't you ever become some man's personal toilet that way I did. — Wally Lamb

What fools men are, and what an evil thing is war. — Wally Lamb

You were the same person, no matter what state you happened to be stuck breathing in. — Wally Lamb

"I love you" was just three meaningless words without the actions that went with them — Wally Lamb

Guess what?' I said. 'I have a psychic.'
His head tilted questioningly, birdlike.
A sidekick? — Wally Lamb

You orchestrate happiness, Dolores - you work at it. You don't catch it as it hurls toward you like a football — Wally Lamb

Love grows from the rich foam of forgiveness, mongrels make good dogs, and the evidence of God exists in the roundness of things. — Wally Lamb

I'm not supposed to need fixing; I'm the strong one - the lookout. — Wally Lamb

People are not like Tupperware, with their lids on securely. — Wally Lamb

I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet. — Wally Lamb

why would white dudes want to change things when they held all the cards? — Wally Lamb

Mine is a story of craving.
Each memory makes me a child again. — Wally Lamb

He who goes questing for what he wants may discover, along the way, what he needs. — Wally Lamb

Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love. — Wally Lamb

You sit around feelin' sorry for yourself and you're dead. Sittin' on your ass can get to be a disease worse than what you got. — Wally Lamb

Cucinala come vuoi, ma sempre cocuzza el...Cook squash anyway you like, but it's still squash. — Wally Lamb

Father's command is a son's law! — Wally Lamb

You're just catching me during one of my fallow periods, that's all. One of my compost years. I'm expecting a creative leap pretty soon now. — Wally Lamb

He was right. And he was an insensitive shit. — Wally Lamb

Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all. — Wally Lamb

I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read. — Wally Lamb

The key to peace within my soul, he said, was to cast aside my bitterness and resentment. — Wally Lamb

When I was a kid ... I needed to belong. — Wally Lamb

Jack Speight undid me, then I almost undid myself. But I've undone some of the bad, too, some of the damage. With help. With luck and love. — Wally Lamb

I ask you for the time of day, you tell me how to build a clock! — Wally Lamb

We'd all be a bunch of geniuses if we had hindsight ahead of time. — Wally Lamb

The World is a very old place, so you'll never be able to tell a completely original story — Wally Lamb

If you want people to flock to art, lure them with pancakes. — Wally Lamb

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

I love the most the students with troubled lives. — Wally Lamb

The hair on your head affects people and is a testament to the world about who you are.
- Bonnie Foreshaw (Tabatha Rowley's story) — Wally Lamb

I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing. — Wally Lamb

Bless me, Father, for I have sinned," I repeated. "But never as much as I have been sinned against! — Wally Lamb

As anxious and limited as that love might have been, it had been love nonetheless. — Wally Lamb

Sometimes we want something to be true so badly that we convince ourselves that it is true. — Wally Lamb

That's the trouble with survival of the fittest, isn't it, Dominick? The corpse at your feet. That little inconvenience. — Wally Lamb

Your twin brother is, as you said, an abandoned house. If no one is home, then someone is missing. So you grieve. — Wally Lamb

Fiction writing is a strange business when you think about it. You sit down and weave a network of lies to explore deeper truths. — Wally Lamb

If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them. — Wally Lamb

One thing I've learned in my program is that guilt is a wasted emotion, you know? Look back on the past but don't stare. — Wally Lamb

The whole world was crazy; I'd flattered myself by assuming I was a semifinalist. — Wally Lamb

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 the price. — Wally Lamb

Motherless children have a hard time when the mother is gone. That — Wally Lamb

This was a career, not an emotional disorder. — Wally Lamb

Renovate your life, the old myths say, and the universe is yours. — Wally Lamb

Comforts the disturbed and disturbs the comfortable: — Wally Lamb

Don't write stories for teenagers or any other group," she advised. "Write them for yourself and let the audience that needs them find them. — Wally Lamb

The greatest griefs are silent. — Wally Lamb

When you deserved it, even the mail could rape you. — Wally Lamb

You know what 'Dolores' means? It's Latin, means sadness. Our Lady of Sorrow. Why are you so sad? — Wally Lamb

Sometimes the closer we got to a situation, the less clear it looked. — Wally Lamb

God, that's always the thing you have to decide with high school kids: what to make an issue of, what to let go. — Wally Lamb

He's splitting me open, I thought. He'll break me and then I'll die. — Wally Lamb

But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears? — Wally Lamb

Depression was, in some ways, a crisis of energy. I had heard her say that before; we were in reruns. — Wally Lamb

La lingua non ha ossa, ma rompe il dorsol... The tongue has no bones but can break a man's back! — Wally Lamb

Look, don't just stare at the pages," I used to tell my students. "Become the characters. Live inside the book. — Wally Lamb

He said he wanted a Happy Meal. — Wally Lamb

People walk in the door because they need you to take care of them
to feed them or fix them. — Wally Lamb

If your twin was dead, were you still a twin? — Wally Lamb

She preferred to get high on life. — Wally Lamb

The world is made of stairs; some go up and some go down. . . . — Wally Lamb

And would you three like peanuts, pretzels, or Biscoff cookies with those? — Wally Lamb

So maybe that's what love means. Having the capacity to forgive the one who wronged you, no matter how deep the hurt was. — Wally Lamb

The "what-ifs": they'll do a number on you. — Wally Lamb

The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs. — Wally Lamb

That coincidence is God's way of staying invisible? — Wally Lamb

Because what good's confession without penance - right, — Wally Lamb

That melting pot stuff was always more about what this country wanted to believe about itself than the way people really felt. — Wally Lamb

Sometimes when you go looking for what you want, you run right into what you need. — Wally Lamb

Here is a girl who is pretty in a quiet way. I bet she's had a very sad life. — Wally Lamb

I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned. — Wally Lamb

Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course. — Wally Lamb

Sarcasm is a suit of armor. — Wally Lamb

I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life. — Wally Lamb

Faith doesn't give warranties. — Wally Lamb

Her shut-eyed smile transformed itself into something else: the smile of someone brave and knowing, someone whose pain had made her wise. — Wally Lamb

A life I didn't choose chose me. — Wally Lamb

A purple African violet so lush and fleshy it looked edible ... his fingers as cool and smooth as beach stones. — Wally Lamb