Owen Meany Quotes
- It is amazing to me, now, how such wild imaginings and philosophies - inspired by a night charged with frights and calamities - made such… — John Irving
- Owen Meany believed that “coincidence†was a stupid, shallow refuge sought by stupid, shallow people who were unable to accept the fact that their lives… — John Irving
- I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice. Not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever… — 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… — 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 he… — John Irving
- Owen meany who rarely wasted words and who had the conversation-stopping habit of dropping remarks like coins into a deep pool of water... remarks that… — John Irving
- Anyone can be sentimental about the nativity; any fool can feel like a Christian at Christmas. But Easter is the main event; if you don’t… — John Irving