Shelia

“… and so he tried to accept the ache in his heart as what Dr. Larch would call the common symptoms of normal life.”
― John Irving, The Cider House Rules

“Imagining something is better than remembering something.”
― John Irving, The World According to Garp

“Grant us safe lodging, and holy rest,” Mrs. Grogan was saying, “and peace at last.” Amen, thought Wilbur Larch, the Saint of St. Cloud’s, who was seventy-something, and an ether addict, and who felt that he’d come a long way and still had a long way to go.”
― John Irving, The Cider House Rules

“This is a writer’s lesson:
To learn that the sounds that we imagine can be the clearest, loudest sounds of all.”
― John Irving, Trying to Save Piggy Sneed