Larch's Quotes

#1. And what were the rules at St. Cloud's? What were Larch's rules? Which rules did Dr. Larch observe, which ones did he break, or replace
and with what confidence?

John Irving

#2. You remember how I used to tell you that I was Doctor Larch's helper?" Homer asked Angel.
"Right," said Angel Wells.
"Well, I got very good
at helping him," Homer said. "Very good. I'm not an amateur

John Irving

#3. He wanted to take Homer Wells in his arms, and hug him, and kiss him, but he could only hope that Homer understood how much Dr. Larch's self-esteem was dependent on his self-control.

John Irving

#4. The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#5. Dr. Larch pointed out that Melony had taken Jane Eyre with her; he accepted this as a hopeful sign - wherever Melony went, she would not be without guidance, she would not be without love, without faith; she had a good book with her. If only she'll keep reading it, and reading it, Larch thought.

John Irving

#6. At times, he admitted, he had been very happy in the apple business. He knew what Larch would have told him: that his happiness was not the point, or that it wasn't as important as his usefulness.

John Irving

#7. It was Wilbur Larch who was the first man in Maine to call a television what it was: an idiot box.

John Irving

#8. I love clothes, but I don't have a specific favorite, because I'm very much a fashionista.

Lily Collins

#9. Happiness is not a state of being. Happiness is a vector, it is movement.

Neal Shusterman

#10. The leaves of these [larch] trees are like those of the pine; timber from them comes in long lengths, is as easily wrought in joiner's work as is the clearwood of fir, and contains a liquid resin, of the color of Attic honey, which is good for consumptives .

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

#11. In other parts of the world, they have double-bed sheets," wrote Wilbur Larch in A Brief History of St. Cloud's. "Here in St. Cloud's we do without - we just do without.

John Irving

#12. I like light, color, luminosity. I like things full of color and vibrant.

Oscar De La Renta

#13. ... and so he tried to accept the ache in his heart as what Dr. Larch would call the common symptoms of normal life.

John Irving

#14. Everything makes me angry, unless it makes me sad.

Deborah Eisenberg

#15. Don't, Mom." I begin walking toward her, but I can see the mist forming in her eyes. "No, no, no." By the time I reach her, it's too late. She's bawling. If there's one thing I can't stand, it's crying. Not because it makes me emotional, but because it annoys the hell out of me. And it's awkward.

Colleen Hoover

#16. When I first came to this country, I didn't know how to speak English.

Wilmer Valderrama

#17. You are my work of art," Wilbur Larch told Homer Wells. "Everything else has just been a job. I don't know if you've got a work of art in you," Larch concluded in his letter to Homer, "but I know what your job is,and you know what it is, too.

John Irving

#18. Uncomplicated men assumed others to have uncomplicated motivations,

Robert Jordan

#19. Always be suspicious of easy work, Dr. Wilbur Larch once said to Homer Wells.

John Irving

#20. Then the Yo-Yo was coming around again, and Vann Larch was saying, "Gehenna with this fooling around! I'll fix the expurgated unprintability!

H. Beam Piper

#21. Where did Gabriel get a lily,
In the month of March,
When the green
Is hardly seen
On the early larch?

Grace James

#22. He recognized that she and he could hold hands and kiss in most places and that landlords wouldn't think twice about renting to them. But queer spoke to all the other spaces and moments his body and heart didn't fit into.

Vivek Shraya

#23. Grant us safe lodging, and holy rest," Mrs. Grogan was saying, "and peace at last." Amen, thought Wilbur Larch, the Saint of St. Cloud's, who was seventy-something, and an ether addict, and who felt that he'd come a long way and still had a long way to go.

John Irving