Itยดs natural to want someone you love to do what you want, or what you think would be good for them, but you have to let everything happen to them. You can't interfere with people you love any more than you're supposed to interfere with people you don't even know. And that's hard, ..., because you often feel like interfering -you want to be the one who makes the plans.
John Irvingโฆ and so he tried to accept the ache in his heart as what Dr. Larch would call the common symptoms of normal life.
John IrvingWhat was even more germane was my study of the history of religion. It was one of the few things in school I was fascinated by.
John Irving