Your disapproval is noted. It is legitimate. You are welcome to disapprove. But you are not welcome to be ignorant, to look the other way, to be unable to perform—should you change your mind.
You are my work of art, Wilbur Larch told Homer Wells. Everything else has just been a job. I don't know if you've got a work of art in you, Larch concluded in his letter to Homer, but I know what you...
When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don''t lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time.
When people say that German or any other language is romantic... all they really mean is that they've enjoyed a past in the language.
What a power I had discovered! I felt certain I could refill those bleacher seats—one day, I was sure, I could see everyone who’d been there; I could find that special someone my mother had waved to,...
We tend to think that if you don't know where you're goin, you don't belong where you are.
Watch out for people who call themselves religious; make sure you know what they mean, make sure they know what you mean!
This prevented Elaine from making up any stories about whomever I was seeing at the time, man or woman. Therefore, no one was falsely accused of shitting in the bed.
This is a real-life story, Owen, I said. It’s not a mystery novel. In real life, I meant, there was nothing written that the missing father couldn’t
The more clearly one sees this world; the more one is obliged to pretend it does not exist.
The English teacher kept his fingers crossed about Exeter; if the boy was accepted, Mr. Leary hoped the school would be so rigorous that it might save young Baciagalupo from the more unsavory aspects...
THINK OF HARDY AS A MAN WHO WAS ALMOST RELIGIOUS, AS A MAN WHO CAME SO CLOSE TO BELIEVING IN GOD THAT WHEN HE REJECTED GOD, HIS REJECTION MADE HIM FEROCIOUSLY BITTER. THE KIND OF FATE HARDY BELIEVES I...
She was a passionate reader, and she thought that reading was one of the noblest efforts of all; in contrast, she found writing to be a great waste of time—a childish self-indulgence, even messier tha...
She felt if she ever had children she would love them no less when they were twenty than when they were two; they might need you more at twenty, she thought. What do you really need when you're two? I...
Ronkers was getting out of the elevator on the first floor when the intercom paged 'Dr Heart'. There was no Dr Heart at University Hospital. 'Dr Heart' meant someone's heart had stopped.'Dr Heart?' th...
People only ask questions when they're ready to hear the answers.
LIBERACE!' Owen would have cried. 'WHO WOULD HAVE BELIEVED IT POSSIBLE? LIBERACE! KILLED BY WATERMELONS!
JUST THINK OF THIS AS MY LITTLE GIFT TO YOU, says Owen Meany
I’m not a fortune-teller! Lupe said, but Juan Diego didn’t translate this. The woman you want is Soledad, Vargas said to Edward Bonshaw. What woman? I don’t want a woman! the new missionary cried; he’...
It was best not to ask Pepe if reading or Jesus had saved him, or which one had saved him more.