“We 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 from We Are Water
“Maybe that's what love is. Having someone who guides you through different experiences, coaxes you to try news things but still makes you feel safe.”
― Wally Lamb, quote from We Are Water
“a life we didn't choose, chose us”
― Wally Lamb, quote from We Are Water
“One thing I’ve learned in my program is that guilt is a wasted emotion, you know? Look back on the past but don’t stare.”
― Wally Lamb, quote from We Are Water
“A life I didn't choose chose me.”
― Wally Lamb, quote from We Are Water
“So maybe that’s what love means. Having the capacity to forgive the one who wronged you, no matter how deep the hurt was.”
― Wally Lamb, quote from We Are Water
“That’s often the case, of course—that creation and madness begin to dance with each other.”
― Wally Lamb, quote from We Are Water
“The “what-ifs”: they’ll do a number on you.”
― Wally Lamb, quote from We Are Water
“Il destino mischia le carte, ma siamo noi a giocare la partita. Destiny shuffles the cards, but we are the ones who must play the game.”
― Wally Lamb, quote from We Are Water
“Sometimes we want something to be true so badly that we convince ourselves that it is true.”
― Wally Lamb, quote from We Are Water
“All I’m saying, Dad, is that I accept that I don’t know. But I have faith that my Lord and Savior does, so I’m putting myself in His hands. Humbling myself to a wisdom that’s above and beyond me and praying for His guidance.”
― Wally Lamb, quote from We Are Water
“comforts the disturbed and disturbs the comfortable:”
― Wally Lamb, quote from We Are Water
“So maybe that’s what love means. Having the capacity to forgive the one who wronged you, no matter how deep the hurt was. At any rate, I’m glad she doesn’t know about the corpse that’s down there in that well. I’ve spared her that much.”
― Wally Lamb, quote from We Are Water
“That coincidence is God’s way of staying invisible?”
― Wally Lamb, quote from We Are Water
“It’s as if the work on your canvas has a will of its own. When that happens, it can be quite exciting. But disturbing, too, when, as the painter, you are not in control of your painting.”
― Wally Lamb, quote from We Are Water
“Of course, all of the coolest icons overdosed and died years ago, which is just as well. How depressing would it be to see a gray-haired Jimi Hendrix wearing a cardigan sweater and reminiscing about the soundtrack of the Summer of Love?”
― Wally Lamb, quote from We Are Water
“Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference.”
― Wally Lamb, quote from We Are Water
“This is where the pot is strongest now: at the place where it had been broken.”
― Wally Lamb, quote from We Are Water
“Change what you can, accept what you can’t, and be smart enough to know the difference. Viveca comes downstairs first and heads into the”
― Wally Lamb, quote from We Are Water
“This was a career, not an emotional disorder.”
― Wally Lamb, quote from We Are Water
“Motherless children have a hard time when the mother is gone. That”
― Wally Lamb, quote from We Are Water
“Motherless children have a hard time when the mother is gone.”
― Wally Lamb, quote from We Are Water
“and yet she continues to skip rope in my mind and on my canvases, raising her dark, hopeful face to the sky, innocent of the depth of people’s cruelty toward “the other”—those who, for whatever reason, must swim against the tide instead of letting it carry them. . . .”
― Wally Lamb, quote from We Are Water
“It lands halfway down the skirt. The red wine against the green silk makes it look like Gaia, the primordial earth mother, is having her period. I know I should feel guilty. Contrite. I should be rushing to the fridge and grabbing a bottle of club soda before the stain sets, or rushing Viveca’s dress down the street to that dry cleaning place. But I’m not contrite. I’m a little giddy, in fact. I pour another mug of wine and throw it at the other three dresses. In some places the wine seeps in and it dribbles down to the hems in others. I do it again: pour, splash. I feel like Jackson Pollock must have felt, except I’m not dribbling paint; I’m staining beauty with blood.”
― Wally Lamb, quote from We Are Water
“I understand there was some controversy about the coroner’s ruling concerning Josephus Jones’s”
― Wally Lamb, quote from We Are Water
“Too 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 from We Are Water
“If you want people to flock to art, lure them with pancakes.”
― Wally Lamb, quote from We Are Water
“Maybe that’s what love is. Having someone who guides you through different experiences, coaxes you to try new things but still makes you feel safe.”
― Wally Lamb, quote from We Are Water
“When a painting I’m working on becomes my singular focus—when I am “in the zone,” as I’ve heard people put it—a trancelike state will sometimes overtake me.”
― Wally Lamb, quote from We Are Water
Wally Lamb
Born place: in Norwich, Connecticut, The United States
Born date October 17, 1950
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“But besides I haven’t the time: I’m too busy trying to see that you don’t lose any of the money I married you for.” I kissed her.”
― Dashiell Hammett, quote from The Thin Man
“On July 2, 1960, a few weeks before that year’s Democratic National Convention, former President Harry Truman publicly stated that John F Kennedy—who had won enough delegates to be chosen his party’s candidate for the presidency—was too young and inexperienced for the job.”
― Robert Greene, quote from The Art of Seduction
“Maybe I got sick of accusations, sick of being Polonius's daughter, and Laertes's sister, and Hamlet's girlfriend. Maybe I wanted, for a short while, simply to be myself.”
― Lisa Mantchev, quote from Eyes Like Stars
“He's never shown the slightest interest in you before. I mean, he's never stared at you like you're the only person in the room when we're al together. Or sulked around for days because you turned him down for a dance. Or touched the sleeve of your sweater when he thinks no one's looking -”
― Claire LaZebnik, quote from Epic Fail
“You think I married you because I lost when we drew straws?” He chuckled softly. “Oh, Meri. Sweetheart. I won the straw draw. I didn’t lose it.” She stared at him, not comprehending the difference. “What are you saying?” Travis grinned. “When we sat around the table that night, we didn’t decide to draw straws because none of us wanted to marry you. We drew straws because all of us wanted to marry you.” Meredith blinked up at her husband. Could it be true? Had she been a prize, not a chore? “And I’ll tell you something else.” He dipped his head and lowered his voice, his grin turning downright mischievous. “But you gotta swear not to tell the others.” She nodded. “I rigged the contest.” “What?” “I made sure that I was the one who ended up with the short straw.” Meredith’s pulse quickened. “Why?” Travis shrugged a bit, and if she didn’t know better, she could have sworn his skin pinkened a bit under his tan. “At the time I told myself that you were my responsibility. That because of our previous encounter, I should be the one to marry you.” A responsibility. Of course. Meredith forced her chin to stay raised and her back straight despite her yearning to curl up into a protective ball. “But I was fooling myself.” Travis’s gaze met hers, and she caught her breath. The way he looked at her, it was . . . was . . . “Even then I was falling in love with you.” It was love. “I couldn’t stand the idea of one of my brothers marrying you. You belonged with me. I knew it. I couldn’t explain it, but I knew it. And over the last several weeks, I’ve only grown more sure. I love you, Meredith. I thank God every day for bringing you back into my life.”
― Karen Witemeyer, quote from Short-Straw Bride
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