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We invent what we love, and what we fear. - [Invention] I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice--not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother's death, but because he is the reason I believe in God; I am a Christian because of Owen Meany. I make no claims to have a life in Christ, or with Christ--and certainly not for Christ, which I've heard some zealots claim. - A Prayer for Owen Meany [Books (First Lines)] Imagine a young man on his way to a less-than-thirty-second event--the loss of his left hand, long before he reached middle age. - The Fourth Hand (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] The summer my father bought the bear, none of us was born--we weren't even conceived: not Frank, the oldest; not Franny; the loudest; not me, the next; and not the youngest of us, Lilly and Egg. - The Hotel New Hampshire [Books (First Lines)] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK Garp's mother, Jenny Fields, was arrested in Boston in 1942 for wounding a man in a movie theatre. This was shortly after the Japanese had bombed Pearl Harbor and people were being tolerant of soldiers, because suddenly everyone was a soldier, but Jenny Fields was quite firm in her intolerance of the behavior of men in general and soldiers in particular. - The World According to Garp [Books (First Lines)]
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