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“as if Mr. Fish also hoped that Owen would give us one more performance; as if Mr. Fish could not believe that, in this production, Owen Meany had not been given a speaking part.”
― John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

“That was when I discovered that I couldn’t speak. I had lost my voice. It occurs to me now that it wasn’t my voice that I wanted to hear. If I couldn’t hear Owen’s voice, I didn’t want to hear anyone’s. It was only Owen’s voice that I wanted to hear; and when Mary Beth Baird spoke to me, that was when I knew that Owen Meany was gone.”
― John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

“He was our hero—over and over again, he was our hero; he was always our hero.”
― John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

“How it must have disappointed Owen … to discover that my father was such an insipid soup of a man.”
― John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany