Quotes from Wally Lamb, She's Come Undone

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of life's longing for itself.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Her shut-eyed smile transformed itself into something else: the smile of someone brave and knowing, someone whose pain had made her wise.