Contact
Privacy
Book: The Hotel New Hampshire
Quotes of Book: The Hotel New Hampshire
TOP TAGS :women-s-fictionjellyfishfueltruth-and-liesfaintconstanttypeword-play

  1. John Irving _ The Hotel New Hampshire

    It was as if all the books in her room had been feeding on her, had consumed – not nourished – her.
    book-quote

  2. John Irving _ The Hotel New Hampshire

    Why does it seem to take more than half a lifetime to get to be a lousy teenager? Why does childhood take forever – when you're a child? Why does it seem to occupy a solid three-quarters of the whole trip? And when it's over, when the kids grow up, when you suddenly have to face facts…well," Frank said to me, just recently, "you know the story. When we were in the first Hotel New Hampshire, it seemed we'd go on being thirteen and fourteen and fifteen forever. For fucking forever, as Franny would say. But once we left the first Hotel New Hampshire," Frank said, "the rest of our lives moved past us twice as fast. That's just how it is," Frank claimed, smugly. "For half your life, you're fifteen. Then one day your twenties begin, and they're over the next day. And your thirties blow by you like a weekend spent with pleasant company. And before you know it, you're thinking about being fifteen again.
    book-quote

  3. John Irving _ The Hotel New Hampshire

    Every misunderstanding has at its center a breakdown of language.
    book-quote

  4. John Irving _ The Hotel New Hampshire

    My God," Franny would say later. "They would bring their daughter to see a murder, but they wouldn't even let her hear about an orgasm. Americans sure are strange.
    book-quote

  5. John Irving _ The Hotel New Hampshire

    I was four, and I sincerely believe that this is my first memory of life itself – as opposed to what I was told happened, as opposed to the pictures other people have painted for me.
    book-quote

  6. John Irving _ The Hotel New Hampshire

    You take every opportunity given you in this world, even if you have too many opportunities. One day the opportunities stop, you know?
    book-quote

  7. John Irving _ The Hotel New Hampshire

    …it insisted to her that she was a writer, when perhaps she was only a sensitive and loving reader, a lover of literature who thought she wanted to write. I think it was the writing that killed Lilly, because writing can do that. It just burned her up; she wasn't big enough to take the self-abuse of it, to take the constant chipping away – of herself.
    book-quote

  8. John Irving _ The Hotel New Hampshire

    Add doom to the list, then. Especially in families, doom is "altogether common." Sorrow floats; love, too; and – in the long run – doom. It floats, too.
    book-quote

  9. John Irving _ The Hotel New Hampshire

    Love also floats. And, that being true, love probably resembles Sorrow in other ways.
    book-quote

  10. John Irving _ The Hotel New Hampshire

    There is at least one terrible thing about lovers – real lovers, I mean: people who are in love with each other, even then they will relish their every physical contact in a sexual way; even when they're supposed to be in a kind of mourning, they can get aroused. Franny and I simply couldn't have gone on holding each other on the stairs: it was impossible to touch each other, at all, and not want to touch everything.
    book-quote

  11. John Irving _ The Hotel New Hampshire

    …She was intimidating to me in the way someone who never remembers your name can be intimidating. 'In this world,' Franny once observed, 'just when you're trying to think of yourself as memorable, there is always someone who forgets that they've met you.
    book-quote

  12. John Irving _ The Hotel New Hampshire

    ...руководящий принцип нашей семьи сводился к тому, что осознание неизбежности печального конца не должно мешать жить полнокровной жизнью. Это базировалось на уверенности в том, что других концов, кроме печальных, не бывает.
    book-quote
Categories