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

Tag: 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

Tag: 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

Tag: life woman-s-life



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

Wally Lamb


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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

Tag: 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

Tag: 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.

Wally Lamb


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

Wally Lamb


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

Wally Lamb


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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

Tag: fear escapism mistrust



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