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  1. John Irving _ Avenue of Mysteries

    Whoa!" cried the Crucified Christ-he looked more like the Drowned Christ at the moment, and the whoa word was a foreign-sounding one to the Spanish-speaking kindergartners. Four or five of the terrified children instantly wet their pants; one little girl shrieked so loudly that several girls and boys bit their tongues. Those kindergartners nearest the door to the bedroom bolted through the bedroom, screaming, and raced into the hall. Those children who must have believed there was no escape from the gringo Christ fell to their knees, peeing and crying, and covered their heads with their hands; one little boy hugged a little girl so hard that she bit him in the face.
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  2. John Irving _ Avenue of Mysteries

    I really like the sex in your novels," Dorothy told him. "I like how you do it." "I like it better," Miriam said to him, giving her daughter an all-knowing look. "I have the perspective to know what really bad sex is," Dorothy's mom told her. "Please, Mother-don't paint us a picture," Dorothy said.
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  3. John Irving _ Avenue of Mysteries

    When the deranged rooster crowed a third time, his crowing was cut off mid-squawk. "There, that does it," Miriam said. "No more heralding of a false dawn, no more untruthful messengers.
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  4. John Irving _ Avenue of Mysteries

    Writers who have any audience have more readers than they know. Juan Diego was more famous than he thought.
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  5. John Irving _ Avenue of Mysteries

    Wasn't this the point Juan Diego had made repeatedly? Women readers kept fiction alive-here was another one. When Juan Diego had used Spanish in crying out the scholastic's name, the Chinese girl knew she'd been right about who he was.
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  6. John Irving _ Avenue of Mysteries

    I'm not a fortune-teller!" Lupe said, but Juan Diego didn't translate this. "The woman you want is Soledad," Vargas said to Edward Bonshaw. "What woman? I don't want a woman!" the new missionary cried; he'd imagined that Dr. Vargas had misunderstood what a vow of celibacy entailed. "Not a woman for you, Mr. Celibacy," Vargas said. "I mean the woman you need to talk to, on behalf of the kids. Soledad is the woman who looks after the kids at the circus-she's the lion tamer's wife.
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  7. John Irving _ Avenue of Mysteries

    But Brother Pepe put reading on a pedestal; he was a Jesuit because the Jesuits had made him a reader and introduced him to Jesus, not necessarily in that order. It was best not to ask Pepe if reading or Jesus had saved him, or which one had saved him more.
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  8. John Irving _ Avenue of Mysteries

    That poor girl wasn't a girl," Señor Eduardo said; he'd glanced once at Lupe, asleep in his lap, just to be sure she was still sleeping. "That poor girl was Flor,
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  9. John Irving _ Avenue of Mysteries

    And Clark clearly knew and disapproved of El Nido. {A nido could be a nest, a den, a hole, a haunt.}"
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  10. John Irving _ Avenue of Mysteries

    He'd complained to his doctor. "The beta-blockers are blocking my memories!" Juan Diego cried. "They are stealing my childhood-they are robbing my dreams!" To his doctor, all this hysteria meant was that Juan Diego missed the kick his adrenaline gave him. {Beta-blockers really do a number on your adrenaline.}
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  11. John Irving _ Avenue of Mysteries

    No es buen momento para un terremoto," Lupe used to say. "It's not a good moment for an earthquake.
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  12. John Irving _ Avenue of Mysteries

    Vargas isn't supposed to be faithful to a woman he hasn't slept with! Vargas only wants to sleep with Dr. Gomez, Lupe.
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