Quotes by : Wally Lamb

-- that books were mirrors, reflective in sometimes unpredictable ways.

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

I needed her to stop. Needed not to hear the pain in her voice--to see the way she was twisting the pocketbook....

If I could just write it down in a piece of paper, then maybe she could get a decent night's sleep, eat....

Let me tell you something, my wife died for Tuesdays ago. Cancer of the colon. We were married forty-one....

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

I remember the odd sensation of living in the middle of that experience and feeling, simultaneously,....

A life I didn't choose chose me.

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

Is that what love is all about? Needing them to come back to you when they're away? To come home and....