I love the most the students with troubled lives.
Wally Lamb
I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
myth story read modern
Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.
people drink offer accept love
I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
opportunity life fiction write limits
lives students love
I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
writing character write
Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.
family crowd love
It's the most breathtakingly ironic things about living: the fact that we are all-identical twins included-alone. Singular. And yet what we seek-what saves us-is our connection to others.
living ironic connection things fact twins
The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.
design life presence sign
As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
humans early lions
Love stories are probably all I've ever been able to write or want to write.
stories write love
-- that books were mirrors, reflective in sometimes unpredictable ways.
mirrors reflective books
I am not a smart man, particularly, but one day, at long last, I stumbled from the dark woods of my own, and my family's, and my country's past, holding in my hands these truths: that love grows from the rich loam of forgiveness; that mongrels make good dogs; that the evidence of God exists in the roundness of things. This much, at least, I've figured out. I know this much is true.
inspirational
A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.
women truth inspirational
All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.
strength truth honesty lies inspirational coping
Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
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