Imagining something is better than remembering something.
I'll bet every fucking one of your angels is going to be terrifying!
His resolve was blown as quickly as the rest of him.
Good evening, knocked-up faculty daughter. How are you managing now, you smelly little slut?
Every time you throw a snail off the dock, Ray teased Homer Wells, you're making someone start his whole life over. Maybe I'm doing him a favor, said Homer Wells, the orphan.
Das Leben ist leider nicht so gebaut wie ein guter, altmodischer Roman. Vielmehr endet es, wenn sich diejenigen, die sich erschöpfen sollen, erschöpft haben. Alles, was bleibt, ist die Erinnerung.
But you of all people! I said to him. Look at me—I never was a believer, not until this happened. If I can believe it, why can’t you? I asked Mr. Merrill. He began to stutter. It’s easier for you to j...
But I often think that so-called glamorous people are just very busy people.
But Brother Pepe put reading on a pedestal; he was a Jesuit because the Jesuits had made him a reader and introduced him to Jesus, not necessarily in that order. It was best not to ask Pepe if reading...
As for Dr. Zajac’s modest contribution to the ongoing pollution of the Charles River… well, let’s be fair… In his hopelessly old-fashioned opinion, a lot worse than dogshit was dumped into the Charles...
Anne-Elisabeth had taken the music from Dr. Horvath and was looking through it. 'I see finger-cramping possibilities, William - of them,' she told him.I see ,' William said, winking at her. ' of it.
After all: I had been practicing lifting up Owen Meany—forever. The
Wherever Melony went, she would not be without guidance, she would not be without love, without faith; she had a good book with her. If only she'll keep reading it, and reading it
There's a limit to enduring admiration being a substitute for love.
When however small a measure of jealousy is mixed with misunderstanding, there is always going to be trouble.
Tines
You've witnessed what you c-c-c-call a miracle and now you believe-you believe everything, Pastor Merrill said. But miracles don't c-c-c-cause belief-real miracles don't m-m-m-make faith out of thin a...
You think you have a memory; but it has you! Later,
What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us are wrapped up in parentheses.
Well, that boy’s voice, my grandmother told me, that boy’s voice could bring those mice back to life! And it occurs to me now that Owen’s voice was the voice of all those murdered mice, coming back to...