He felt the pregnant woman squeeze his hand so hard that it hurt. The word ‘Mother!’ was strangely on his lips when Nurse Angela finally got the door open and seized Homer Wells in her arms.‘Oh, oh!’...
Garpo žodžiais tariant, žmogus auga tik užbaigdamas viena ir pradėdamas kita.
Garp didn't want a daughter because of men. Because of bad men, certainly; but even, he thought, because of men like me.
For Homer Wells, it was different. He did not imagine leaving St. Cloud's. The Princes of Maine that Homer saw, the Kings of New England that he imagined — they reigned at the court of St. Cloud's, th...
Flor and Juan Diego and Lupe were the Iowan’s projects; Edward Bonshaw saw them through the eyes of a born reformer, but he did not love them less for looking upon them in this fashion.
Every misunderstanding has at its center a breakdown of language.
Er Schrieb an Helen, dass Jungsein zum Teil auch aus dem Gefühl besteht, dass es niemanden gibt, der dir genug ähnelt um dich zu verstehen
Doris Wales was a woman with straw-blond hair whose body appeared to have been dipped in corn oil; then she must have put her dress on, wet. The dress grabbed at all her parts, and plunged and sagged...
Don’t worry, Bill, Borkman told me. I have Muriel and Richard in my pocket-back! In your back pocket—yes, I said to the crafty deerstalker on skis.
But who can distinguish between falling in love and imagining falling in love? Even genuinely falling in love is an act of the imagination.
But the penultimate paragraph of the novel is naturally the passage I wrote first. When we held Owen Meany above our heads, when we passed him back and forth—so effortlessly—we believed that Owen weig...
But the available light in Twisted River was dim and growing dimmer. The dance-hall door blew (or was slammed) closed, cutting off Teresa Brewer as suddenly as if Six-Pack had taken the singer’s slend...
Both,’ Garp wrote, ‘were of the opinion that the practice of law was vulgar, but the study of it was sublime.’ They
Because I was a Wheelwright-and, therefore, a New England snob-I'd assumed that Phoenix was largely composed of Mormons and Baptists and Republicans;
As a police officer, he'd found that uncontained anger was nothing but a menace to him. Whereas contained anger greatly appealed to him, and he believed that people who weren't angry at all were basic...
As a fourteen-year-old, he’d not been old enough to have sympathy for her—for either the child or the adult that she was.
As Jack would discover, it’s remarkable how you can miss people you barely knew – even those people you never especially liked.
As Garp put it, 'You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.' Even if these so-called endings and beginnings are illusions.
And so this added consideration - that she never get pregnant - contributed to the moderation of their coupling, which was almost always managed under conditions harsh enough to win the approval of Ne...
And in our Scripture class, Owen said, IT'S TRUE THAT THE DISCIPLES ARE STUPID - THEY NEVER UNDERSTAND WHAT JESUS MEANS, THEY'RE A BUNCH OF BUNGLERS, THEY DON'T BELIEVE IN GOD AS MUCH AS THEY WANT TO...