“But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?”
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Famous Wally Lamb Quotes
“I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.”
Source: She's Come Undone
“With destruction comes renovation.”
Source: I Know This Much Is True
“Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.”
“If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.”
Source: She's Come Undone
“Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.”
Source: I Know This Much Is True
Source: I Know This Much Is True
“A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.”
“I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.”
Source: She's Come Undone
Source: She's Come Undone
Source: She's Come Undone
“The greatest griefs are silent.”
Source: I Know This Much Is True
Source: I Know This Much Is True
Source: She's Come Undone
“What if I don’t like adventure? Then cultivate a taste for it. Take a chance. That’s how you grow.”
Source: She's Come Undone
“Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.”
Source: She's Come Undone
“Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.”
Source: She's Come Undone
“Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.”
“Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat.”
Source: The Hour I First Believed
“I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.”
Source: The Hour I First Believed: A Novel