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21 " As my father talked, tears dripped down the side of his face like candle wax. The sight shocked me; until that moment, I had assumed men were as incapable of crying as they were of having babies. "
― Wally Lamb , She's Come Undone
22 " [Writing about themselves] gives them wings, so that they can rise above the confounding maze of their lives and, from that perspective, begin to see the patterns and dead ends of their pasts, and a way out. That's the funny thing about mazes; what's baffling on the ground begins to make sense when you can begin to rise above it, the better to understand your history and fix yourself. "
― Wally Lamb , The Hour I First Believed
23 " People walk in the door because they need you to take care of them -- to feed them or fix them. "
― Wally Lamb
24 " A life I didn't choose chose me. "
― Wally Lamb , We Are Water
25 " Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference. "
26 " What if I don’t like adventure?Then cultivate a taste for it. Take a chance. That’s how you grow. "
27 " Sometimes the closer we got to a situation, the less clear it looked. "
28 " 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. "
29 " I didn't respond to him. Couldn't speak at all. Couldn't look at his self-mutilation--not even the clean, bandaged version of it. Instead, I looked at my own rough, stained house painter's hand. They seemed more like puppets than hands. I had no feelings in it either. "
― Wally Lamb , I Know This Much Is True
30 " The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs. "
31 " 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. "
32 " 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. "
33 " But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears? "
34 " Change what you can, accept what you can’t, and be smart enough to know the difference "
35 " That melting pot stuff was always more about what this country wanted to believe about itself than the way people really felt. "
36 " Getting a job scared her but she was determined not to shy away from risk. That’s what life’s all about. Climbing out onto the airplane wing and jumping off. "
37 " Life's a shit sandwich, my ass. Life's a polka and don't you forget it! "
38 " A fiction writer weaves a fabric of lies in hopes of revealing deeper human truths. "
― Wally Lamb , I'll Fly Away: Further Testimonies from the Women of York Prison
39 " Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed. "
40 " 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. "