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

Mots clés men crying babies

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You can be two things if you're a woman, Dolores. Betty Crocker or a floozy. Just remember your place - even if it kills you.

Wally Lamb

Mots clés woman betty-crocker

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Just don't ever let it happen to you, Dolores. Let people just shit all over you. Don't you ever become some man's personal toilet that way I did.

Wally Lamb

Mots clés life woman-s-life

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Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.

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You know what 'Dolores' means? It's Latin, means sadness. Our Lady of Sorrow. Why are you so sad?

Wally Lamb

Mots clés sadness sorrow dolores

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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 like you - you don't want to do this yourself.

Wally Lamb

Mots clés cancer fat dolores pretty-girl

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...there was no shorthand for "I'm sorry." You were obliged to speak those two words.

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..."I love you" was just three meaningless words without the actions that went with them

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I wasn't a cynic; I was a banged-up realist.

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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

Mots clés fear escapism mistrust

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