Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.

— Wally Lamb

A fiction writer weaves a fabric of lies in hopes of revealing deeper human truths.

— Wally Lamb

A life I didn't choose me.

— Wally Lamb

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

— Wally Lamb

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

A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.

— Wally Lamb

But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?

— Wally Lamb

Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference.

— Wally Lamb

Change what you can, accept what you can’t, and be smart enough to know the difference

— 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