Nothing moves at the Hotel New Hampshire! We're screwed down here-for life!
Not every collision course comes as a surprise.
No touching Baby Jesus.But we’re his parents! proclaimed Mary Beth, who was being generous to include poor Joseph under this appellation.Mary Beth, Barb Wiggin said, if you touch the Baby Jesus, I’m p...
Newspapers are even worse for me than ice cream; headlines, and the big issues that generate the headlines, are pure fat.
Never confuse faith, or belief—of any kind—with something even remotely intellectual.
My God, Franny would say later. They would bring their daughter to see a murder, but they wouldn’t even let her hear about an orgasm. Americans sure are strange.
Mr. Merrill was most appealing because he reassured us that doubt was the essence of faith, and not faith’s opposite.
May God watch over your soul, which no man may abuse.
Logging is most dangerous if you’re impatient; saws and axes, peavys and cant dogs—these tools belong in patient hands.
Like the rooftop dogs, they were lost souls—they were running wild, or they drifted around town like ghosts.
Like any good novel, it lulled him into an almost tranquil state of awareness before it jolted him - it caught him completely by surprise.
Later, in her suite at the Stanhope, Ruth resisted calling Eddie. Besides, at the New York Athletic Club, they probably refused to answer the phone after a certain hour. Or else they would demand to k...
Kad vam umre osoba koju volite, a vi to ne očekujete, ne gubite je odjednom. Gubite jedugo, u komadićima - baš kao što prestaje dolaziti pošta s njezinim imenom i njen mirislagano blijedi s jastuka, p...
Just give me the antibiotic, Esperanza said. Of course I’ll be infected again! I’m a prostitute.
Jack realized that when you’re happy – especially when it’s the first time in your life – you think of things that would never have occurred to you when you were unhappy.
JUST THINK OF THIS AS MY LITTLE GIFT TO YOU, says Owen Meany
It's a no-win argument - that business of what we're born with and what our environment does to us. And it's a boring argument, because it simplifies the mysteries that attend both our birth and our g...
It was not out of love that I wanted to meet my father, but out of the darkest curiosity - to be able to recognize, in myself, what evil I might be capable of.
It was his first understanding that physical attraction, even sexual desire, was stimulated by more than the perfection of a body, or the beauty of a face.
It was from just a few sentences that a writer learned anything from another writer.