"If you care about something you have to protect it – If you’re lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.












My life is a reading list.

More John Irving quotes
"It is your responsibility to find fault with me, it is mine to hear you out. But don't expect me to change.
"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 sto...
"The time to read Madame Bovary is when your romantic hopes and desires have crashed, and you will believe that your future relationships will have dis...
"You can learn a lot from your lovers, but-for the most part-you get to keep your friends longer, and you learn more from them.
"It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.
"In a school community, someone who reads a book for some secretive purpose, other than discussing it, is strange. What was she reading for?