Wally Lamb

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. ↗

— Wally Lamb

#love #luck #she-s-come-undone #life

Just don't ever let it happen to you, Dolores. Let people just shit all over you. Don't you ever become some man's personal toilet that way I did. ↗

— Wally Lamb

#woman-s-life #life

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. ↗

— Wally Lamb

#crying #men #men

That's what life's all about Dolores, climbing out onto the airplane wing and jumping off. ↗

— Wally Lamb

#life

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

— Wally Lamb

#life

My memory of that day is like television itself, sharp and clear but unreliable. ↗

— Wally Lamb

#life

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

— Wally Lamb

#love

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

— Wally Lamb

#love #life

Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words. ↗

— Wally Lamb

#behavior #caught #early #first #hardship

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

— Wally Lamb

#design #life #may #ourselves #presence