"We Are Water" Quotes
"We Are Water" by Wally Lamb is a multi-generational family saga that weaves together themes of trauma, healing, and resilience through the intertwined lives of characters confronting their pasts in a small Connecticut town.
fiction | 561 pages | Published in 2013
Quotes
The past is past, it's the present we should worry about.
Sometimes the truth is too painful to acknowledge, even for oneself.
In every life, there are threads of sadness. But in every life, there are also moments of grace.
People fear what they don't understand.
We're all so much more complicated than we allow ourselves to appear.
We can't control other people's choices any more than we can control the weather.
History isn't what happens, it's who tells the story.
Life is not a straight line, it's a series of detours.
The hardest part of forgiveness is to forgive ourselves.
We carry the past with us no matter how we try to outrun it.
