John Irving Quotes

“Your memory is a monster; you forget—it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you—and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!”

― John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

topic:hiding memory

“my life has been determinedly unexciting; my life is a reading list.”

― John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

topic:life

“What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us are wrapped up in parentheses.”

― John Irving, The Cider House Rules

topic:time importance

“When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time”

― John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

topic:time grief loss

“Between men and women . . . only death is shared equally.”

― John Irving, The World According to Garp

topic:women equality

“If you're lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.”

― John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

topic:courage living

“If you expect people to be responsible for their children, you have to give them the right to choose whether or not to have children.”

― John Irving, The Cider House Rules

topic:responsibility

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