“ That melting pot stuff was always more about what this country wanted to believe about itself than the way people really felt. Wally Lamb
“ People walk in the door because they need you to take care of them -- to feed them or fix them. Wally Lamb
“ Is that what love is all about? Needing them to come back to you when they're away? To come home and keep you safe? Wally Lamb
“ 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. Wally Lamb
“ I remember the odd sensation of living in the middle of that experience and feeling, simultaneously, like it was something happening at telescopic distance. Like something I was looking at through the… Wally Lamb
“ So many bad things have happened to them that they can't trust the good things. They have to shove them away before someone can get it back. Wally Lamb
“ Let 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… 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
“ Getting 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
