The Solitude Virgin, Lupe said, was a white-faced pinhead in a fancy gown. It further irked Lupe that Guadalupe got second-class treatment in the Basílica de Nuestra Señora de la Soledad; the Guadalup...
TODAY’S THE DAY! ‘… HE THAT BELIEVETH IN ME, THOUGH HE WERE DEAD, YET SHALL HE LIVE; AND WHOSOEVER LIVETH AND BELIEVETH IN ME SHALL NEVER DIE.
THE PRESIDENT IS ELECTED TO UPHOLD THE CONSTITUTION; TO PUT THAT MORE BROADLY, HE’S CHOSEN TO UPHOLD THE LAW—HE’S NOT GIVEN A LICENSE TO OPERATE ABOVE THE LAW, HE’S SUPPOSED TO BE OUR EXAMPLE! Remembe...
Richard Abbott, who I thought knew everything, answered: I don’t know, exactly.
Owen was so tiny, we loved to pick him up; in truth, we couldn’t resist picking him up. We thought it was a miracle: how little he weighed. This was also incongruous because Owen came from a family in...
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...
Owen Meany had believed that his death was necessary if others were to be saved from a stupidity and hatred that was destroying him. In that belief, surely he was not so unfamiliar a hero.
Once a Garp, then an Arp, now only an Ar; she knew he was dying. He had just one vowel and one consonant left.
Nostalgia! Miss Frost cried. You´re nostalgic! She repeated. Just how old are you, William? She asked.Seventeen, I told her.Seventeen! Miss Frost cried, as if she'd been stabbed. Well, William Abbott...
Motherfucking Christ, Gerry said to me on that Christmas Day, 1960. Isn’t it perfectly possible that Nils and his wife are too depressed to have kids? The prospect of having kids depresses the shit ou...
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.
MADE FOR TELEVISION.
MADE FOR TELEVISION!' said Owen Meany.
Lupe’s language was incomprehensible—what came out of her mouth didn’t even sound like Spanish.
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.
It won't take much of a city to be a city for me
It was in looking at sea gulls that it first occurred to Homer Wells that he was free.
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...