I Know This Much Is True

by Wally Lamb

Innocent of our nighttime flings, Anne Generous told me one afternoon at the pool that I was a sweetie pie but too shy for my own good.

She sat there, mute. Waiting. “And because . . .” “Yeah? Because what?”

Dominic is the one having an episode. He was never a twin. Boom. Lottery ticet call. Unfortunately this didn't happen.

I call it the Don Quixote complex.

This is the third concurrent text to mention Don Quixote

I’m probably more dangerous than he is.”

Lol hot take by the end of the book yeah, he was

Why was I doing this—picking a fight with the guy who was going to either make me or break me, insurance-wise? Why couldn’t I just shut up?

Relatable

Getting my life sentence as my brother’s keeper commuted? It was funny, though—not at all what I’d figured on: Thomas outlasting me. Winning.

“Life is a river,” she repeated. “Only in the most literal sense are we born on the day we leave our mother’s womb. In the larger, truer sense, we are born of the past—connected to its fluidity, both genetically and experientially.”

I saw what I saw! I know this much is true!”

Hey title

Forgiveness is the rich loam from which love can grow.

instead of continuing my “love affair with inertia.”

She was HIV-positive.

Jenny. Can i rise the aids baby by myself now? This book actually took the Gump ending. Ahock

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

am not a smart man,

Im forest forest gump