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“the major knew only that Owen had been a hero—he didn’t know that Owen Meany had been a miracle, too.”
― 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

“What are you—a couple of fags?” the major asked—he laughed at his joke. “MAYBE WE ARE,”
― 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