“In increments both measurable and not, our childhood is stolen from us -- not always in one momentous event but often in a series of small robberies, which add up to the same loss.”
― Until I Find You
― Until I Find You
“Logic is relative.”
― A Prayer for Owen Meany
― A Prayer for Owen Meany
“Goodnight you princes of Maine, you kings of New England.”
― The Cider House Rules
― The Cider House Rules
“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
“Human beings are remarkable - at what we can learn to live with. If we couldn't get strong from what we lose, and what we miss, and what we want and can't have, then we couldn't ever get strong enough, could we? What else makes us strong?”
― The Hotel New Hampshire
― The Hotel New Hampshire
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