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“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

“O God—please give him back! I shall keep asking You.”
― John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

“In the case of the laughter of Eleanor Pribst, I could swear I hear the death rattle of a rat or a vulture.”
― John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany