Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.

— 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

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

Sometimes the closer we got to a situation, the less clear it looked.

— Wally Lamb

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

— Wally Lamb

That melting pot stuff was always more about what this country wanted to believe about itself than the way people really felt.

— Wally Lamb

That time we separated was my idea. I thought, well, I'm fifty years old and there might be someone else out there. People waste their happiness - that's what makes me sad. Everyone's so scared to be happy.

— Wally Lamb

The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.

— Wally Lamb

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

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