“She sat keenly white and still among them, a witness to everything--maybe determining nothing, possibly judging it all.”
― The World According to Garp
― The World According to Garp
“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”
― The World According to Garp
― The World According to Garp
“Life," Garp wrote, "is sadly not structured like a good old-fashioned novel. Instead an end occurs when those who are meant to peter out have petered out. All that is left is memory. But even a nihilist has memory.”
― The World According to Garp
― The World According to Garp
“In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases”
― The World According to Garp
― 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.”
― The World According to Garp
― The World According to Garp
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