Quotes About Acceptance

That's actually happened?' Ruth asked. 'Everything's happened,' the prostitute said.

Amazing! said Mr. McSwiney. You've got a permanently fixed larynx, he told Owen. I've rarely seen such a thing, he said. Your voice box is never in repose - your Adam's apple sits up there in the position of a permanent scream. I could try giving you some exercises, but you might want to see a throat doctor; you might have to have surgery. I DON'T WANT TO HAVE SURGERY, I DON'T NEED ANY EXERCISES, said Owen Meany. IF GOD GAVE ME THIS VOICE, HE HAD A REASON, Owen said.

Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me the most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.

Don't grown-ups ever get over things?

not simple intolerance but the tolerance of intolerance, which allows the intolerance to persist.

You'd better leave your chromosomes at the door.

With women, Ernie Holm had some experience at taking no for an answer.

We all go through a phase—it lasts a lifetime, for some of us—when we're embarrassed by our parents; we don't want them hanging around us because we're afraid they'll do or say something that will make us feel ashamed of them.

It sounds the same to me, Kid," Molly said. "The new lift takes you to the same old place. It's the same trip, just a faster ride—it's no more or less depressing than it ever was," she added.

I was thinking I had noticed a curious lack of either enthusiasm or bitterness in the account of the world by Theobald's sister. There was in her story the flatness one associates with a storyteller who is accepting of unhappy endings, as if her life and her companions had never been exotic to her—as if they had always been staging a ludicrous and doomed effort at reclassification.

Most dump kids are believers; maybe you have to believe in something when you see so many discarded things.

Do not forget the past; forgive the past.

Caroline O'Day appealed to us, although the breasts of Caroline O'Day were devalued, in Owen's view, by her Catholicism.

We tell him, now, that he might have helped her that time, but in the long run, we know, doom floats.

Once a Garp, then an Arp, now only an Ar; she knew he was dying. He had just one vowel and one consonant left.

We had learned this fact of Sorrow, previously, from Frank: Sorrow floats.

Don't forget: Miss Frost was an older woman, and that goes a long way with boys—even if the older woman has a penis!

He wanted to leave, but now it was his fate that held him. Sometimes, when we are labeled, when we are branded, our brand becomes our calling: Wilbur Larch felt himself called.

Writers simply have to accept readers who prefer other writers.

Hello, my name is Beth. I'm an Ellen Jamesian. And Garp would give her this: Hello, my name is Garp. I have a broken jaw.

There are many unintentionally cruel talents that the world, indiscriminately, hands out to us. Whether we can use these gifts we never asked for is not the worlds concern.

Of course, apologies are rarely acceptable to true believers—or to anyone who believes in pure good, or in pure evil.

Quel ch'è più arduo ad accettarsi, riguardo al passare del tempo, è che le persone che un tempo contavano tanto per noi siano adesso chiuse fra due parentesi.

When you start sleeping somewhere you know will be the last place you'll get to make your home, that's when the future has a certain finality, too.