"What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for life – to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of their last parting?"
—John Irving, A Widow for One Year
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John Irving: "It broke her heart..."
"It broke her heart to know he was a good man, but not to know if he was the right one."
—John Irving, A Widow for One Year
—John Irving, A Widow for One Year
John Irving: "There are few things..."
"There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep."
—John Irving, A Widow for One Year
—John Irving, A Widow for One Year
John Irving: "There is no nakedness..."
"There is no nakedness that compares to what it feels like to be naked in front of someone for the first time."
—John Irving, A Widow for One Year
—John Irving, A Widow for One Year
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