Quotes by Wally Lamb

About Wally Lamb:

Wally Lamb is an American author known as the writer of the novels She's Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True, both of which were selected for Oprah's Book Club. He was the director of the Writing Center at Norwich Free Academy in Norwich from 1989 to 1998 and has taught Creative Writing in the English Department at the University of Connecticut.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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

Wally Lamb

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.

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That time we separated was my idea. I thought, well, I'm fifty years old and there might be someone else out there. People waste their happiness - that's what makes me sad. Everyone's so scared to be happy.

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

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

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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.

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When you deserved it, even the mail could rape you.

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Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.

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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.

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Life's a shit sandwich, my ass. Life's a polka and don't you forget it!

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You know what 'Dolores' means? It's Latin, means sadness. Our Lady of Sorrow. Why are you so sad?

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When I asked my parents how the baby got inside Ma, they both laughed, and then Daddy told me they had made it with their bodies. I pictured them fully clothed, rubbing furiously against each other, like two sticks making fire.

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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.

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Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference.

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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.

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A life I didn't choose chose me.

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So maybe that’s what love means. Having the capacity to forgive the one who wronged you, no matter how deep the hurt was.

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Too bad I didn't know you back then, I would have come and rescued you." Like he was Prince Charming or something. Which he is, in a way, because he rescued me from the simple, uncomplicated life I thought I liked until I realized how much I was miss...

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I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned.

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

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I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.

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Author Bio

  • NameWally Lamb
  • Descriptionnovelist
  • BornOctober 17, 1950
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionAuthor; Novelist