Quotes from Wally Lamb

The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.

Love is like breathing. You take it in and let it out.

Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.

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.

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

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

With destruction comes renovation.

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

Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.

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

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

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

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

Life seemed nearest to acceptable at four A.M.

This was what could happen to you: you could end up this far from where you thought you were going.

I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.

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.

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.

I walked over and looked closer at the statue of the goddess. She was wearing a headdress with a skull and a cobra and a crescent moon. Maybe this is what peace of mind was all about: having a poisonous snake on your head and smiling anyway.

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

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

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

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

It is all connected Dominick," she said. "Life is not a series of isolated ponds & puddles; life is this river you see below, before you. It flows from the past through the present on it's way to the future.