Tagged: John Irving.
April 26th, 2012
It´s natural to want someone you love to do what you want, or what you think would be good for them, but you have to let everything happen to them. You can’t interfere with people you love any more than you’re supposed to interfere with people you don’t even know. And that’s hard … because you often feel like interfering -you want to be the one who makes the plans.
The Cider House Rules by John Irving

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March 26th, 2012
The desire to never leave your side, the desire to never see you again. The desire to see your face asleep on the pillow beside my face and to see your eyes open in the morning when I lie next to you—just watching you, waiting for you to wake up.
Until I Find You by John Irving

∞12:56 pm, by lostinthesounds ∩39
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March 23rd, 2012
We will often do anything to pretend that nothing is on our minds.
Trying to Save Piggy Sneed by John Irving

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February 14th, 2012
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[A Prayer for Owen Meany] [John Irving] [Picture] [Picture Quote] [mine] [lostinthesounds]
February 13th, 2012
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.
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

∞02:47 pm, by lostinthesounds ∩30
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February 1st, 2012
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January 31st, 2012
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.
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

∞11:10 am, by lostinthesounds ∩100
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December 27th, 2011
So we dream on. Thus we invent our lives. We give ourselves a sainted mother, we make our father a hero; and someone’s older brother and someone’s older sister – they become our heroes too. We invent what we love and what we fear. There is always a brave lost brother – and a little lost sister, too. We dream on and on: the best hotel, the perfect family, the resort life. And our dreams escape us almost as vividly as we can imagine them… That’s what happens, like it or not.
The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving

∞06:29 pm, by lostinthesounds ∩12
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November 18th, 2011
… and so he tried to accept the ache in his heart as what Dr. Larch would call the common symptoms of normal life.
The Cider House Rules by John Irving

∞01:11 pm, by lostinthesounds ∩13
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October 18th, 2011
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.
The World According to Garp by John Irving

∞06:28 pm, by lostinthesounds ∩9
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