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“A truly happy woman drives some men and almost every other woman absolutely crazy”

John Irving book A Prayer for Owen Meany

Source: A Prayer for Owen Meany

“It is your responsibility to find fault with me, it is mine to hear you out. But don't expect me to change.”

John Irving book A Prayer for Owen Meany

Source: A Prayer for Owen Meany

“When time passes, it's the people who knew you whom you want to see; they're the ones you can talk to. When enough time passes, what's it matter what they did to you?”

John Irving book The Cider House Rules

Source: The Cider House Rules

“The desire to never leave your side, the desire to never see you again. The desire to see your face asleep on the pillow beside my face and to see your eyes open in the morning when I lie next to you—just watching you, waiting for you to wake up.”

John Irving book Until I Find You

Source: Until I Find You

“You take every opportunity given you in this world, even if you have too many opportunities. One day, the opportunities stop, you know.”

John Irving book The Hotel New Hampshire

Source: The Hotel New Hampshire

“Life is serious but art is fun!”

John Irving

“If watching television doesn't hasten death, it surely manages to make death very inviting; for television so shamelessly sentimentalizes and romanticizes death that it makes the living feel they have missed something - just by staying alive.”

John Irving book A Prayer for Owen Meany

Source: A Prayer for Owen Meany

“…the consequences of sex are often more memorable than the act itself.”

John Irving book A Widow for One Year

Source: A Widow for One Year

“… and so he tried to accept the ache in his heart as what Dr. Larch would call the common symptoms of normal life.”

John Irving book The Cider House Rules

Source: The Cider House Rules

“Logic is relative.”

John Irving book A Prayer for Owen Meany

Source: A Prayer for Owen Meany

“All men are liars, said Roberta Muldoon, who knew this was true because she had once been a man.”

John Irving book The World According to Garp

Source: The World According to Garp

“You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.”

John Irving book The World According to Garp

Source: The World According to Garp

“Human beings are remarkable - at what we can learn to live with. If we couldn't get strong from what we lose, and what we miss, and what we want and can't have, then we couldn't ever get strong enough, could we? What else makes us strong?”

John Irving book The Hotel New Hampshire

Source: The Hotel New Hampshire

“Half my life is an act of revision.”

John Irving

“I’m not afraid, but I’m very nervous.”

John Irving book A Prayer for Owen Meany

Source: A Prayer for Owen Meany

“All his life he would hold this moment as exemplary of what love was. It was not wanting anything more, nor was it expecting people to exceed what they had just accomplished; it was simply feeling so complete.”

John Irving book A Widow for One Year

Source: A Widow for One Year

“Being afraid you'll look like a coward is the worst reason for doing anything.”

John Irving book The Cider House Rules

Source: The Cider House Rules

“If you don't feel that you are possibly on the edge of humiliating yourself, of losing control of the whole thing, then probably what you are doing isn't very vital.”

John Irving