Bonshaw Quotes

#1. Clothes, whips, reading material," the customs officer had summarized, in Spanish and English, to the young American. "Just the bare essentials!" Edward Bonshaw

John Irving

#2. Yet no litany of sexually transmitted diseases was likely to scare Edward Bonshaw away; sexual attraction isn't strictly scientific.

John Irving

#3. Flor and Juan Diego and Lupe were the Iowan's projects; Edward Bonshaw saw them through the eyes of a born reformer, but he did not love them less for looking upon them in this fashion.

John Irving

#4. Why Edward Bonshaw had been so attached to it? "A glooming peace this morning with it brings" - well, yes, and why would such darkness ever depart? Who can happily think of what else happened to Juliet and her Romeo, and not dwell on what happened to them at the end of their story?

John Irving

#5. What Brother Pepe saw in Edward Bonshaw was a man who looked like he belonged - like a man who had never felt at home, but who'd suddenly found his place in the scheme of things.

John Irving

#6. This is yours. It's my promise to you. I swear I'm going to do everything I can to get that ring on your finger.

Cassia Leo

#7. The right sort (of story) come of themselves: they tap at my forehead and say 'Here we are.

Hans Christian Andersen

#8. Always be challenged to build your life intentionally for possessions.

Sunday Adelaja

#9. If you care anything about your personal security, you should first of all pray for order and tranquility throughout the four quarters of the land ...

Nichiren

#10. Physic, for the most part, is nothing else but the substitute of exercise and temperance.

Joseph Addison

#11. Today is declared an unscheduled holiday.

Lois Lowry