That's actually happened?' Ruth asked.'Everything's happened,' the prostitute said.
That was the night he got up and went to the boys' division; perhaps he was looking for his history in the big room where all the boys slept, but what he found instead was Dr. Larch kissing every boy...
That image of how the children can lift Owen over their heads in Sunday school—how he is light enough so they can easily pass him back and forth when the teacher is out of the room—is not only as near...
THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN GET AMERICANS TO NOTICE ANYTHING IS TO TAX THEM OR DRAFT THEM OR KILL THEM, Owen said. He said that once—when Hester proposed abolishing the draft. IF YOU ABOLISH THE DRAFT, said...
Succuba
Since everything that is moved functions as a sort of instrument of the first mover, if there was no first mover, then whatever things are in motion would be simply instruments. Of course, if an infin...
She was an expert at the art of sudden appearance.
She felt detached from her family, and thought it strange how they had lavished so much attention on her, as a child, and then at some appointed, prearranged time they seemed to stop the flow of affec...
She drew the line at television. It took no effort to watch – it was infinitely more beneficial to the soul, and to the intelligence, to read or to listen – and what she imagined there was on TV appal...
Owen Meany believed that coincidence was a stupid, shallow refuge sought by stupid, shallow people who were unable to accept the fact that their lives were shaped by a terrifying and awesome design –...
No one could have fathomed what a life he'd led, for it was chiefly a life lived in his mind.
Most self-destructive behavior is simply ridiculous—never mind how complexly compelled by personal demons.
Most dump kids are believers; maybe you have to believe in something when you see so many discarded things.
Moreover, there was what Amy called the cocksuckers’ contingent of the country—what Danny knew as the dumber-than-dog-shit element, those bully patriots—and they were too set in their ways or too poor...
Look at the world: look at how many of our peerless leaders presume to tell us that they know what God wants! It’s not God who’s fucked up, it’s the screamers who say they believe in Him and who claim...
It's not right to hurt or deceive someone who's already been hurt and deceived.
It's Shakespearean, Bill; lots of the important stuff in Shakespeare happens offstage - you just hear about it.
It seems to me that people who don’t learn as easily as others suffer from a kind of learning disability—there is something different about the way they comprehend unfamiliar material—but I fail to se...
It often happens with grown-ups that their tears are misunderstood. (Who can know which time in their lives they are reliving?)
In short,I might take seriously the idea of service to my country when my country begins to demonstrate that it gives a shit about me!