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“Don't forget this, too: Rumors aren't interested in the unsensational story; rumors don't care what's true.”

John Irving In One Person

Source: In One Person

“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.”

John Irving book The Hotel New Hampshire

Source: The Hotel New Hampshire

“Owen meany who rarely wasted words and who had the conversation-stopping habit of dropping remarks like coins into a deep pool of water… remarks that sank, like truth, to the bottom of the pool where they would remain untouchable.”

John Irving book A Prayer for Owen Meany

Source: A Prayer for Owen Meany

“A woman half dressed seemed to have some power, but a man was simply not as handsome as when he was naked, and not as secure as when he was clothed.”

John Irving book The World According to Garp

Source: The World According to Garp

“The arrangements that couples make in order to maintain civility in the midst of their journey to divorce are often most elaborate when the professed top priority is to protect a child.”

John Irving

“Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.”

John Irving In One Person

Source: In One Person

“And when you love a book, commit one glorious sentence of it-perhaps your favorite sentence-to memory. That way you won't forget the language of the story that moved you to tears.”

John Irving In One Person

Source: In One Person

“This is a writer’s lesson:
To learn that the sounds that we imagine can be the clearest, loudest sounds of all.”

John Irving book Trying to Save Piggy Sneed

Source: Trying to Save Piggy Sneed

“This was not of the nature of a Christlike lesson for Owen Meany to learn, as he lay in the manger, that someone you hate can give you a hard-on.”

John Irving book A Prayer for Owen Meany

Source: A Prayer for Owen Meany

“You can't learn everything you need to know legally.”

John Irving book A Widow for One Year

Source: A Widow for One Year (1998), part II, ch. 7

“Being wrong about important things is exhausting.”

John Irving book The Cider House Rules

Source: The Cider House Rules

“As it was, things went from bad to worse, as they often will when amateurs are involved in an activity that they perform in bad temper – or in a hurry.”

John Irving book A Prayer for Owen Meany

Source: A Prayer for Owen Meany

“It's not right to hurt or deceive someone who's already been hurt and deceived.”

John Irving book The Cider House Rules

Source: The Cider House Rules

“…there was no more safety to be found in love than there was to be found in a virus.”

John Irving book The Cider House Rules

Source: The Cider House Rules

“I think about you more and more, but I don't waste my time - or yours - thinking about who you were before I knew you.”

John Irving book The Cider House Rules

Source: The Cider House Rules