JUST THINK OF THIS AS MY LITTLE GIFT TO YOU," says Owen…

Oh," says Owen, "but I would have, you know." "I know you would have," says Liz, "and knowing you would have is nearly as…

— Gabrielle Zevin

“A brick could be used to bestow gratitude upon your favorite (or least favorite) politician. Let them know your approval level by giving them…

— Jarod Kintz

“Come here, Cal," she says real gentle, and I come close. Read me something." I open up the book I'm holding, a new one…

— Heather Henson

“From Hester’s bedroom—even though the door was closed—we could hear her breathing; Hester’s breathing, when she’d been drinking, was something between a snore and…

— John Irving

“MADE FOR TELEVISION!' said Owen Meany.”

— John Irving

“will tell you what is my overriding perception of the last twenty years: that we are a civilization careening toward a succession of anticlimaxes—toward…

— John Irving

“who are always right, and are given to reminding us of it, are irritating; prophets are irritating, and Owen Meany is decidedly a prophet.…

— John Irving

“he had seen his share of heroes, too. Major Rawls never knew everything that Owen had known; the major knew only that Owen had…

— John Irving

It is amazing to me, now, how such wild imaginings and philosophies - inspired by a night charged with frights and calamities - made…

— John Irving

“But the penultimate paragraph of the novel is naturally the passage I wrote first. “When we held Owen Meany above our heads, when we…

— John Irving

“while we waited to see what God would do. I heard a tear fall—it was one of my grandmother’s tears, and I heard it…

— John Irving

“Of course I knew then where Hester had hidden Owen Meany; he’d been under the couch cushions—and under her!—all the while we were searching.…

— John Irving

I think that was when the headmaster realized he had lost; he realized then that he was finished. Because, what could he do? Was…

— John Irving

“Because of A Prayer for Owen Meany, many of my readers assume I am “religious.” I go to church only occasionally—like a lot of…

— John Irving

“JUST BECAUSE A BUNCH OF ATHEISTS ARE BETTER WRITERS THAN THE GUYS WHO WROTE THE BIBLE DOESN'T NECESSARILY MAKE THEM RIGHT!" [Owen Meany] said…

— John Irving