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.
John IrvingIt is exhausting to be seventeen and not know who you are.
John IrvingEverybody dies … The thing is, to have a life before we die.
John IrvingMost places we leave in childhood grow less, not more, fancy.
John IrvingTags: childhood psychology
An affection that was calculated was never trustworthy.
John IrvingAnd when you love a book, commit one glorious sentence of it-perhaps your favorite sentence-to memory. That way you won't forget the language of the story that moved you to tears.
John Irving...I suddenly realized what small towns are. They are places where you grow up with the peculiar-you live next to the strange and the unlikely for so long that everything and everyone become commonplace.
John Irving...return trips, to this day...are simply invitations to dull trances or leaden slumber,
John IrvingAlmost everyone is dying to leave home, eventually; and almost everyone needs to.
John IrvingI think now that is the nature of hymns-they make us want to repeat them...they are a part of any service, and often the only part of a funeral service, that makes us feel everything is acceptable.
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