A Widow for One Year
John Irving
Top 10 Best Quotes
“…the consequences of sex are often more memorable than the act itself.”
“All his life he would hold this moment as exemplary of what love was. It was not wanting anything more, nor was it expecting people to exceed what they had just accomplished; it was simply feeling so complete.”
“…there is no nakedness that compares to being naked in front of someone for the first time.”
“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 the last parting?”
“It was a sound like someone trying not to make a sound.”
“You can't learn everything you need to know legally.”
“. . .There are moments when time does stop. We must be alert enough to notice such moments . . .”
“…there is no straightforward negotiation with a four year old…”
“Whereas she wished more of the population were better educated, she also believed that education was largely wasted on the majority of the people she met.”
“But who can distinguish between falling in love and imagining falling in love? Even genuinely falling in love is an act of the imagination.”
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Book Keywords:
learning, education, legality, life-lessons, ruth-cole
