Wally Lamb Quotes

“Do you have children, Dominick?"
"Nope."
"Well if you did," she said, "you would most likely read them not only Curious George but also fables and fairy tales. Stories where humans outsmart witches, where giants and ogres are felled and good triumphs over evil. Your parents read them to you and your brother. Did they not?"
"My mother did," I said.
"Of course she did. It is the way we teach our children to cope with a world too large and chaotic for them to comprehend. A world that seems, at times, too random. Too indifferent. Of course, the religions of the world will do the same for you, whether you're a Hindu or a Christian or a Rosicrucian. They're brother and sister, really; children's fables and religious parables...”
― Wally Lamb, I Know This Much Is True

“America's been living on borrowed time all these years... Playing the world's whore, wallowing in our greed. Now we're going to pay the price.”
― Wally Lamb, I Know This Much Is True

“If he wanted to pray, she told him, he should go to a church, not the library.”
― Wally Lamb, I Know This Much Is True