Wally Lamb

“Forgiveness is a tough thing. It's not like you're letting the person off the hook. It's more like you're letting yourself off the hook.”

“You can be a good person with a kind heart and still say no.”

“If you want to see a man come to life, give him a challenge. It'll be his finest hour.”

“The best of who you are is not from the worst of what you've done.”

“Sometimes you have to get sicker before you can get better.”

“Change is the only constant. Your ability to navigate and tolerate change and its painful uncomfortableness is the key to growth.”

“We are all, in the private kingdom of our hearts, desperate for the company of a wise, true friend.”

“Memory is a poet, not a historian.”

“Secrets are the rocks that sink relationships.”

“That's the thing about lessons, you always learn them when you don't expect them or want them.”

“I learned that you can't write a book in your head. The words have to go on paper.”

“Pain is a part of life. Suffering is an option.”

“Sometimes you have to be a little bit crazy to keep from going insane.”

“It's the stuff that's left out that makes the story.”

“Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.”