but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.

There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep.

It is an important distinction to note that she looked not only as if she had taken good care of herself, but that she had good reason to have done so. (...) She looked to be in such total possession of her life that only the most confident men could continue to look at her if she looked back at them. Even in bus stations, she was a woman who was stared at only until she looked back.

Nothing moves at the Hotel New Hampshire! We're screwed down here-for life!

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.

If pride is a sin ... moral pride is the greatest sin.

wherever the TV glows, there sits someone who isn't reading.