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  • You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

    John Irving (1986). “The Hotel New Hampshire”
  • If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

    Life   Courage   Love You  
    John Irving (2012). “The World According To Garp”, p.605, Random House
  • I think that was when the headmaster realized he had lost; he realized then that he was finished. Because, what could he do? Was he going to tell us to stop praying? We kept our heads bowed; and we kept praying. Even as awkward as he was, the Rev. Mr. Merrill had made it clear to us that there was no end to praying for Owen Meany.

  • I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice. Not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother's death, but because he is the reason I believe in God. I am a Christian because of Owen Meany.

    FaceBook post by John Irving from Feb 06, 2014
  • Never confuse faith, or belief — of any kind — with something even remotely intellectual.

    John Irving (2012). “A Prayer For Owen Meany”, p.537, Random House
  • The only way you get Americans to notice anything is to tax them or draft them or kill them.

    Way   Taxes   Owen Meany  
    John Irving (1989). “A prayer for Owen Meany: a novel”, William Morrow & Co
  • 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 – more powerful and unstoppable than the Yankee Flyer. (a train)

  • You think you have a memory; but it has you!

    John Irving (2012). “A Prayer for Owen Meany: A Novel”, p.28, Harper Collins
  • Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you - and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!

    John Irving (2012). “A Prayer For Owen Meany”, p.46, Random House
  • Imagining something is better than remembering something.

    John Irving (1978). “The world according to Garp”, Pocket
  • In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases

    The World According to Garp ch. 19 (1978)
  • Watch out for people who call themselves religious; make sure you know what they mean - make sure they know what they mean!

    Religious   Mean   People  
    John Irving (1989). “A prayer for Owen Meany: a novel”, William Morrow & Co
  • When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time—the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just when the day comes—when there's a particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feeling that she's gone, forever—there comes another day, and another specifically missing part.

    Death   Grief   Loss  
    John Irving (1989). “A prayer for Owen Meany: a novel”, William Morrow & Co
  • but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.

    John Irving (1989). “A prayer for Owen Meany: a novel”, William Morrow & Co
  • Without somehow destroying me in the process, how could God reveal himself in a way that would leave no room for doubt? If there were no room for doubt, there would be no room for me.

    Frederick Buechner (1970). “The alphabet of grace”
  • In increments both measurable and not, our childhood is stolen from us -- not always in one momentous event but often in a series of small robberies, which add up to the same loss.

    Loss   Childhood   Events  
    John Irving (2012). “In One Person: A Novel”, p.260, Simon and Schuster
  • It is your responsibility to find fault with me, it is mine to hear you out. But don't expect me to change.

    John Irving (2012). “A Prayer For Owen Meany”, p.313, Random House
  • It is amazing to me, now, how such wild imaginings and philosophies - inspired by a night charged with frights and calamities - made such perfectly good sense to Owen Meany and me, but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.

    John Irving (2012). “A Prayer For Owen Meany”, p.269, Random House
  • This was not of the nature of a Christlike lesson for Owen Meany to learn, as he lay in the manger, that someone you hate can give you a hard-on.

    Hate   Giving   Lessons  
    John Irving (2012). “A Prayer For Owen Meany”, p.229, Random House
  • Anyone can be sentimental about the nativity; any fool can feel like a Christian at Christmas. But Easter is the main event; if you don’t believe in the resurrection, you’re not a believer." “If you don’t believe in Easter,” Owen Meany said. “Don’t kid yourself—Don’t call yourself a Christian.

    John Irving (2012). “A Prayer For Owen Meany”, p.294, Random House
  • 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 where they would remain untouchable.

    Water   Stopping   Coins  
    John Irving (2012). “A Prayer for Owen Meany: A Novel”, p.31, Harper Collins
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