John Irving

This was not of the nature of a Christlike lesson for Owen Meany to learn, as he lay in the manger, that someone you hate can give you a hard-on. ↗

— John Irving

#epiphany #sex #nature

The arrangements that couples make in order to maintain civility in the midst of their journey to divorce are often most elaborate when the professed top priority is to protect a child. ↗

— John Irving

#children #divorce #divorce

If we live long enough, we become caricatures of ourselves. ↗

— John Irving

#life #old-age #age

Good habits are worth being fanatical about. ↗

— John Irving

#being #fanatical #good #good habits #habits

…there was no more safety to be found in love than there was to be found in a virus. ↗

— John Irving

#love

You can't learn everything you need to know legally. ↗

— John Irving

#everything #know #learn #legally #need

Death, it seems," Garp wrote, "does not like to wait until we are prepared for it. Death is indulgent and enjoys, when it can, a flair for the dramatic. ↗

— John Irving

#death

He had in abundance youth’s most dangerous qualities: optimism and relentlessness. He would risk everything he had to fly the plane that could carry the bomb within him. ↗

— John Irving

#age

Bonkie bit Garp!" Garp bit Bonkie ↗

— John Irving

#humor

(Baseball) is a game with a lot of waiting in it; it is a game with increasingly heightened anticipation of increasingly limited action ↗

— John Irving

#sports #baseball