So we do not lose heart...Though our outer nature is wasting away, our inner nature is being renewed every day. For this slight momentary affliction is preparing us for an eternal weight of glory beyo...
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 wher...
Only the chicken-lover will understand me. He will give me a kindly look, maybe mildly desirous. His eyes will tell me: You might look a lot better with some reddish-brown feathers.
Once again, Jack reached for her hand. It was the only thing he knew how to do. As it would turn out, it was about the only thing he reall knew.
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.
Most men don't mind if another woman watches. It's the women who are watching who don't want to be seen.
Merrill was most appealing because he reassured us that doubt was the essence of faith, and not faith’s opposite.
Lupe began to recite a list of reasons. One: love of dogs, she started. Two: to be stars—in a circus, we might be famous. Three: because the parrot man will come visit us, and our future— She stopped...
Love also floats. And, that being true, love probably resembles Sorrow in other ways.
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...
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.
It was Owen Meany who taught me that any good book is always in motion—from the general to the specific, from the particular to the whole, and back again. Good reading—and good writing about reading—m...
It surprised him that was the one who looked stricken with fear, as if she were a prisoner in the passenger seat and saw the fast-approaching collision seconds before the drive could react to it. Bon...
It is simply amazing, at that age, when you’re thirteen or fourteen, how you can take being loved for granted, how (even when you are wanted) you can feel utterly alone.
It is an important distinction to note that she looked not only as if she had taken good care of herself, but that she had good reason to have done so. (...) She looked to be in such total possession...
Isn't it perfectly possible that Nils and his wife are too depressed to have kids? The prospect of having kids depresses the shit out of me, and I'm neither suicidal nor Norwegian!
Isn't it amazing? The Americans have so many good afterthoughts!
In this dirty minded world, you are either someone's wife or someone's whore. And if you're not either people think there is something wrong with you....but there is nothing wrong with me
In the world according to her father, Jenny Garp knew, we must have energy. Her famous grandmother, Jenny Fields, once thought of us as Externals, Vital Organs, Absentees, and Goners. But in the world...