01c. 1950 ADToo 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 missing. How lonely that life had been: going to work, going home, and watching TV, going places by myself on weekends.Wally Lamb / quote ↗
03c. 1950 ADChange what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference.Wally Lamb / quote ↗
04c. 1950 ADWhat if I don’t like adventure?Then cultivate a taste for it. Take a chance. That’s how you grow.Wally Lamb / quote ↗
05c. 1950 ADSometimes the closer we got to a situation, the less clear it looked.Wally Lamb / quote ↗
06c. 1950 ADWe 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.Wally Lamb / quote ↗
07c. 1950 ADI didn't respond to him. Couldn't speak at all. Couldn't look at his self-mutilation--not even the clean, bandaged version of it. Instead, I looked at my own rough, stained house painter's hand. They seemed more like puppets than hands. I had no feelings in it either.Wally Lamb / quote ↗
08c. 1950 ADThe seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.Wally Lamb / quote ↗
09c. 1950 ADYou can be two things if you're a woman, Dolores. Betty Crocker or a floozy. Just remember your place - even if it kills you.Wally Lamb / quote ↗
10c. 1950 ADI 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.Wally Lamb / quote ↗
12c. 1950 ADThat melting pot stuff was always more about what this country wanted to believe about itself than the way people really felt.Wally Lamb / quote ↗
13c. 1950 ADGetting a job scared her but she was determined not to shy away from risk. That’s what life’s all about. Climbing out onto the airplane wing and jumping off.Wally Lamb / quote ↗
14c. 1950 ADLife's a shit sandwich, my ass. Life's a polka and don't you forget it!Wally Lamb / quote ↗
15c. 1950 ADA fiction writer weaves a fabric of lies in hopes of revealing deeper human truths.Wally Lamb / quote ↗
17c. 1950 ADJack 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.Wally Lamb / quote ↗
19c. 1950 ADLet 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.Wally Lamb / quote ↗
