But it was the death of that girl—the one who lived in his head—that I mourned when he died. Even more than I mourned him, I suffered the loss of the person he thought I was.
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“The only way you get Americans to notice anything is to tax them or draft them or kill them.”
― A Prayer for Owen Meany
― A Prayer for Owen Meany
“It is your responsibility to find fault with me, it is mine to hear you out. But don't expect me to change.”
― A Prayer for Owen Meany
― A Prayer for Owen Meany
“A truly happy woman drives some men and almost every other woman absolutely crazy”
― A Prayer for Owen Meany
― A Prayer 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.”
― A Prayer for Owen Meany
― A Prayer for Owen Meany
“Watch out for people who call themselves religious; make sure you know what they mean––make sure they know what they mean!”
― A Prayer for Owen Meany
― A Prayer for Owen Meany
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