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41 " When you deserved it, even the mail could rape you. "
― Wally Lamb , She's Come Undone
42 " Let me tell you something, my wife died for Tuesdays ago. Cancer of the colon. We were married forty-one years. Now you stop feeling sorry for yourself and lose some of that pork of yours. Pretty girl like you - you don't want to do this yourself. "
43 " Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love. "
44 " Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. "
― Wally Lamb , I'll Take You There
45 " 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 "
46 " sometimes when you go looking for what you want, you run right into what you need. "
― Wally Lamb , The Hour I First Believed
47 " All the time we were there, you could see that dead squirrel right out in plain sight. Whenever anyone mentions New Hampshire, that squirrel is always what I think of. I bet I’ve thought about that squirrel a million times. "
― Wally Lamb , I Know This Much Is True
48 " that's the funny thing about mazes: what's baffling on the ground begins to makes sense when you can begin to rise above it, the better to understand your history and fix yourself". (p. 717) "
49 " She suggested that...I should examine what I had been trying to shoot at and punch and kill for so long- whether or not I had, perhaps, denied some more gentle part of my nature, and if so, what had it cost me. "And don't get a tattoo for your forehead," she said, smiling. "It's entirely unnecessary." As proof, she held her hands in front of her. Wiggled her fingers and smiled. Our being human made us tragic and comic both, she has said; the gods both laughed and wept. "
50 " 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. "
51 " If he wanted to pray, she told him, he should go to a church, not the library. "
52 " Renovate your life, the old myths say, and the universe is yours. "
― Wally Lamb
53 " 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. "
54 " With destruction comes renovation. "
55 " I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet. "
56 " Look, don't just stare at the pages," I used to tell my students. "Become the characters. Live inside the book. "
57 " 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 "
58 " Life seemed nearest to acceptable at four A.M. "
59 " This was what could happen to you: you could end up this far from where you thought you were going. "
60 " I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love. "