Lou

“Autobiography just isn’t good or bad enough to work as fiction… Unrevised, real life is just a mess.”
― John Irving, The Last Chairlift

“As Nora had also said, “Nothing will change.” She meant the Catholic Church and the Republicans, but—according to Em—the Republicans would get worse.”
― John Irving, The Last Chairlift

“The snowshoer had written about Reagan—just one sentence, after seeing her friends who were dying of AIDS. “If or when there’s another plague, I hope America has a better plague president than Ronald Reagan,” the little English teacher wrote.”
― John Irving, The Last Chairlift

“But a person’s life is their own. Few sins are greater than trying to squeeze someone else into the shape you require them to be.”
― Emily St. James, Woodworking