I Know This Much Is True

by Wally Lamb

Renovate your life, the old myths say, and the universe is yours.

that power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.

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.