Wally Lamb Quotes
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Wally Lamb Famous Quotes & Sayings
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That's the problem with survival of the fittest ... the corpse at your fett. That little inconvenience.
Who gets the change?" the clerk asked. "You or ... your fella?"
Oh, he's not my boyfriend," I said. "He's my mother.
Oh, he's not my boyfriend," I said. "He's my mother.
Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
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.
Explosive bifurcation is the sudden transition that wrenches the system out of one order, and into another.
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.
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.
You orchestrate happiness, Dolores - you work at it. You don't catch it as it hurls toward you like a football
That's the trouble with survival of the fittest, isn't it, Dominick? The corpse at your feet. That little inconvenience.
The hair on your head affects people and is a testament to the world about who you are.
- Bonnie Foreshaw (Tabatha Rowley's story)
- Bonnie Foreshaw (Tabatha Rowley's story)
If you risked love, it took you wherever you wanted to go. If you repressed it, you ended up unhappy.
Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference. Viveca comes downstairs first and heads into the
Vicarious traumatization. It can happen to those who bear secondary witness to the traumas of others.
You are a steward of the pain and injustices people have visited upon you. Or, if you prefer we could call you a scrupulous coroner.
Joined together, they made a kind of centaur - half bastard, half bitch. Dottie would have laughed out loud at that.
Blood banged inside my head. I loved my brother. I hated him. There was no solution to who he was. No getting back who he had been.
Is that what love is all about? Needing them to come back to you when they're away? To come home and keep you safe?
Her shut-eyed smile transformed itself into something else: the smile of someone brave and knowing, someone whose pain had made her wise.
A purple African violet so lush and fleshy it looked edible ... his fingers as cool and smooth as beach stones.
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.
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.
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.
Fiction writing is a strange business when you think about it. You sit down and weave a network of lies to explore deeper truths.
God, that's always the thing you have to decide with high school kids: what to make an issue of, what to let go.
Depression was, in some ways, a crisis of energy. I had heard her say that before; we were in reruns.
Look, don't just stare at the pages," I used to tell my students. "Become the characters. Live inside the book.
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.
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.
Love grows from the rich foam of forgiveness, mongrels make good dogs, and the evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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.