Best Owen Meany Quotes

#1. THERE'S NO NEED TO BE CRUDE,' said Owen Meany.

John Irving

#2. IF YOU ABOLISH THE DRAFT," said Owen Meany, "MOST AMERICANS WILL SIMPLY STOP CARING WHAT WE'RE DOING IN OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD

John Irving

#3. How much of yourself will you give them in exchange?

Alaya Dawn Johnson

#4. But how is one to make a scientist understand that there is something unalterably deranged about differential calculus, quantum theory, or the obscene and so inanely liturgical ordeals of the precession of the equinoxes.

Antonin Artaud

#5. JUST THINK OF THIS AS MY LITTLE GIFT TO YOU," says Owen Meany

John Irving

#6. It's like my mind knows to stay as far away from him as possible ... but my bones, my skin quiver in his presence.

David Estes

#7. Then he looked only at me. "YOU'RE GETTING SMALLER, BUT I CAN STILL SEE YOU!" said Owen Meany. Then

John Irving

#8. 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 knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother's death, but because he is the reason I believe in God. I am a Christian because of Owen Meany.

John Irving

#9. I wanted to freeze
in the moment in my mind
forever
because there's nothing better
than flutters of the heart

Lisa Schroeder

#10. It is amazing to me, now, how such wild imaginings and philosophies - inspired by a night charged with frights and calamities - made such perfectly good sense to Owen Meany and me, but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.

John Irving

#11. 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

#12. 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 sank, like truth, to the bottom of the pool where they would remain untouchable.

John Irving

#13. 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 believe in the resurrection, you're not a believer."
"If you don't believe in Easter," Owen Meany said. "Don't kid yourself - Don't call yourself a Christian.

John Irving

#14. Lies are like sleeping pills. You should only use them when you absolutely have to. They spoil everything if you make a habit of them.

Daniel Quinn

#15. I did direct two short movies. I learned many things, and one of the things I learned was that I am not a director. It has to be visceral, and it's not for me. I feel much more comfortable acting.

Vincent Cassel

#16. When you're without problems," Clare said, "you're dead.

Judy Blume

#17. Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Johnny Got His Gun, A Farewell to Arms, A Prayer for Owen Meany, some years Wuthering Heights, Silas Marner, Their Eyes Were Watching God, or I Capture the Castle. Those books are like old friends. When

Gabrielle Zevin

#18. That's the best part about being a kid. Nothing seems impossible until someone bigger and older tells you it is. I grew up in a lovely little world where nothing was too far out of reach if I wanted to work for it. I think I still live in that world.

Lindsey Stirling

#19. I want to know if you can get up after a night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone, and be sweet to the ones you love. I want to know if you can be alone with yourself and truly like the company you keep in the empty moments of your life.

Jon Blais

#20. I don't know, I'm not from this neighborhood."-to Jake LaMotta after a night of drinking when LaMotta asked "is that the sun or the moon?

Rocky Graziano

#21. INTO PARADISE MAY THE ANGELS LEAD YOU,'" he'd said over my mother's grave; and so I say that one for him - I know it was one of his favorites. I am always saying prayers for Owen Meany. And

John Irving

#22. GUYS, Owen Meany said. That spring, less than a month before Gravesend Academy's graduation exercises, the TV showed us a map of Thailand; five thousand U.S. Marines and fifty jet fighters were being

John Irving

#23. After all: I had been practicing lifting up Owen Meany - forever. The

John Irving

#24. IF WE CAN DO IT IN UNDER FOUR SECONDS, WE CAN DO IT IN UNDER THREE," he said. "IT JUST TAKES A LITTLE MORE FAITH." "It takes more practice," I told him irritably. "FAITH TAKES PRACTICE," said Owen Meany.

John Irving

#25. I'm your mind", it claims. "You can't parse ME into dendrites and synapses

Susanna Kaysen

#26. If I had to pick, I'd say my favorite book is 'A Prayer For Owen Meany', by John Irving.

Sarah Dessen

#27. Human knowledge hasn't been complete enough to understand the afterlife if it hasn't been through the valley of death.

Toba Beta