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John Irving Quotes

Total quotes: 8
“The thing that is most hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most wind up in parentheses.”
— John Irving, The Cider House Rules
Tagged: Time, Past, Letting Go
“They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.”
— John Irving, The World According to Garp
Tagged: Heartbreak, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature
“My life is a reading list.”
— John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany
Tagged: Life, Books, Bibliophile, Novels
“but writers, Garp knew, were just observers - good and ruthless imitators of human behavior.”
— John Irving, The World According to Garp
Tagged: Writers, humans, Observation, imitation
“A woman half dressed seemed to have some power, but a man was simply not as handsome as when he was naked, and not as secure as when he was clothed.”
— John Irving, The World According to Garp
Tagged: Womanhood, beauty, Power, Weakness
“Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.”
— John Irving, In One Person: A Novel
Tagged: Self-hatred, Hate, Loneliness
“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.”
— John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany: A Novel
Tagged: Missing, Death, Mourning
“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.”
— John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany
Tagged: Grief, Grieving, Lose, Dealing With Men, Missing, Time
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