Lauren

“When (The World According To) Garp was published, people who’d lost children wrote to me. ‘’I lost one, too,’’ they told me. I confessed to them that I hadn’t lost any children. I’m just a father with a good imagination. In my imagination, I lose my children every day. (afterword)”
― 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

“You’ve been here before. It won’t kill you. It feels like you can’t breathe, but you actually are breathing. It feels like you’ll never stop crying, but you actually will.”
― Liane Moriarty, The Husband's Secret

“Robin turned and looked straight into her. "What's life for?"

"I don't know."

"I don't either. But I don't think it's about winning.”
― Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections