Julie

“You know, everybody dies. My parents died. Your father died. Everybody dies. I'm going to die too. So will you. The thing is, to have a life before we die. It can be a real adventure having a life”
― John Irving, The World According to Garp

“...nearly everything seems a letdown after a writer has finished writing something.”
― John Irving, The World According to Garp

“In the world according to her father, Jenny Garp knew, we must have energy. Her famous grandmother, Jenny Fields, once thought of us as Externals, Vital Organs, Absentees, and Goners. But in the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases.”
― John Irving, The World According to Garp

“but writers, Garp knew, were just observers - good and ruthless imitators of human behavior.”
― John Irving, The World According to Garp