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Avenue of Mysteries QUOTES

Avenue of Mysteries QUOTES

1 " The way you remember or dream about your loved ones - the ones who are gone - you can't stop their endings from jumping ahead of the rest of their stories. You don't get to choose the chronology of what you dream, or the order of events in which you remember someone. In your mind - in your dreams, in your memories - sometimes the story begins with the epilogue. "

― John Irving , Avenue of Mysteries

2 " There comes a moment in every life when you must let go with your hands—with both hands. "

― John Irving , Avenue of Mysteries

3 " Pour Juan Diego, des morts ou des fantômes auraient dû avoir une toute autre attitude, surtout dans une église. Que venaient-ils chercher ? Ne connaissaient-ils pas les réponses désormais ? "

― John Irving , Avenue of Mysteries

4 " At Circus of The Wonder, only young women—just the girl acrobats, of a certain age—were trained to be skywalkers (The Wonders themselves). This was also on purpose, and entirely Ignacio’s doing. The lion tamer liked young women; he thought that prepubescent girls were the best skywalkers. Ignacio believed that if you were in the audience, you wanted to be worried about the girls falling, not thinking about them sexually; once women were old enough for you to have sexual thoughts about them—well, at least in the lion tamer’s opinion, you weren’t so worried about them dying if you could imagine having sex with them. Naturally, "

― John Irving , Avenue of Mysteries

5 " We’ll be back, with more ashes for you!” el jefe had shouted. “You "

― John Irving , Avenue of Mysteries

6 " Some unexplainable things are real. "

― John Irving , Avenue of Mysteries

7 " ¡Pinche pendejo chimuelo! "

― John Irving , Avenue of Mysteries

8 " ¡Hijo de la chingada! "

― John Irving , Avenue of Mysteries

9 " ¿No estoy aquí, que soy tu madre? "

― John Irving , Avenue of Mysteries

10 " Am I not here, for I am your mother? "

― John Irving , Avenue of Mysteries

11 " jefe’s "

― John Irving , Avenue of Mysteries

12 " Lupe’s language was incomprehensible—what came out of her mouth didn’t even sound like Spanish. "

― John Irving , Avenue of Mysteries

13 " foreshadowing is the storytelling companion of fate. "

― John Irving , Avenue of Mysteries

14 " traduced "

― John Irving , Avenue of Mysteries

15 " To the dump kids, it also seemed perfectly logical that they were driven to the circus by a transvestite prostitute. "

― John Irving , Avenue of Mysteries

16 " the memoir-novel “dumbed down fiction and traduced "

― John Irving , Avenue of Mysteries

17 " Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter. "

― John Irving , Avenue of Mysteries

18 " Melville’s Moby-Dick— "

― John Irving , Avenue of Mysteries

19 " Hardy’s The Mayor of Casterbridge. "

― John Irving , Avenue of Mysteries

20 " David Copperfield. "

― John Irving , Avenue of Mysteries