A truly happy woman drives some men and almost every other woman absolutely crazy

The ability to see the future can be a burden, and the younger you are and the more isolated you feel, maybe the more of a burden it is.

She sat keenly white and still among them, a witness to everything--maybe determining nothing, possibly judging it all.

Owen Meany believed that “coincidence” was a stupid, shallow refuge sought by stupid, shallow people who were unable to accept the fact that their lives were shaped by a terrifying and awesome design – more powerful and unstoppable than the Yankee Flyer. (a train)

When Jack Burns needed to hold his mother's hand, his fingers could see in the dark.

...every study of the gods, of everyone's gods, is a revelation of vengeance towards the innocent.

You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.