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Wally Lamb QUOTES

121 " I learned that there are two young men lost in the woods. Not one. Two....I may never find one of the young men....He has been gone so long. The odds, I'm afraid may be against it. But as for the other, I may have better luck. The other young man may be calling me. "

― Wally Lamb , I Know This Much Is True

122 " I do believe that there's life after love, and also that there is love, still, after a life is over. "

― Wally Lamb , The Hour I First Believed

123 " Visualize your solutions. Picture an answer to the problem. Then make the picture real. "

― Wally Lamb , She's Come Undone

124 " That's the problem with survival of the fittest ... the corpse at your fett. That little inconvenience. "

― Wally Lamb , I Know This Much Is True

125 " I wonder what my baby is thinking at this moment," he called, rubbing his stomach with his hands. What I was thinking about was whether or not his being my mother was going to wreck my nightly friction ritual. "

― Wally Lamb , She's Come Undone

126 " The point is this: that the stream of memory may lead you to the river of understanding. And understanding, in turn, may be a tributary to the river of forgiveness. Perhaps, Dominick, you have yet to emerge fully from the pond where you swam that morning so long ago. And perhaps, when you do, you will no longer look into the water and see the reflection of a son of a bithc. "

― Wally Lamb , I Know This Much Is True

127 " Your mother mentioned she had a little girl. These are for you, sweetheart. Just a little something, heh heh."
He handed me a wrinkled paper bag with a grease spot on it. I hate it when you could hear a person's saliva right in their laugh. "

― Wally Lamb , She's Come Undone

128 " 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 self-awareness. "

― Wally Lamb , Couldn't Keep it to Myself: Wally Lamb and the Women of York Correctional Institution

129 " 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 , The Hour I First Believed

130 " Zinnia always wants to hug me and pat me because she has a boy my same age named Melvin. I said maybe some day Melvin could come play at our farm, and I could bring him to the maze and show him the shortcuts. Zinnia started crying. That’s when I seen that she has freckles. "

― Wally Lamb , The Hour I First Believed

131 " The non-jocks, the readers, the gay kids, the ones starting to stew about social injustice: for these kids, "letting your freak flag fly" is both self discovery and self defense. You cry for this bunch at the mandatory pep assemblies. Huddled together, miserably, in the upper reaches of the bleachers, wearing their oversized raincoats and their secondhand Salvation Army clothes, they stare down at the school-sanctioned celebration of the A list students. They know bullying, these kids--especially the ones who frefuse to exist under the radar. They're tripped in the hallway, shoved against lockers, pelted with Skittles in the lunchroom. For the most part, their tormentors are stealth artists.

The freaks know where there's refuge: I the library, the theater program, art class, creative writing. "

― Wally Lamb , The Hour I First Believed

132 " As anxious and limited as that love might have been, it had been love nonetheless. "

― Wally Lamb

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

― Wally Lamb , I Know This Much Is True

134 " comforts the disturbed and disturbs the comfortable: "

― Wally Lamb , We Are Water

135 " Being in your mid-thirties brought benefits, I reminded myself. You began to appreciate tidiness, smallness, things in their place. This is the shape your life has taken, I said. Be existential. Go to sleep. "

― Wally Lamb , She's Come Undone

136 " I pulled my hand away. It felt numb and oversized, a paw. "

― Wally Lamb , She's Come Undone

137 " 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

138 " We lived, lulled, on the fault line of chaos. Change could come explosively, and out of nowhere. "

― Wally Lamb , The Hour I First Believed

139 " Our ancestors move along with us, in underground rivers and springs too deep for chaos to reach. "

― Wally Lamb , The Hour I First Believed

140 " am not a smart man, particularly, but one day, at long last, I stumbled from the dark woods of my own, and my family’s, and my country’s past, holding in my hands these truths: that love grows from the rich loam of forgiveness; that mongrels make good dogs; that the evidence of God exists in the roundness of things. "

― Wally Lamb , I Know This Much Is True