Religious freedom should work two ways: we should be free to practice the religion of our choice, but we must also be free from having someone else's… - John Irving

He was one of those people things came easily to, but he did little to demonstrate that he deserved to be gifted.

This mannerism of what he'd seen of society struck Homer Wells quite forcefully; people, even nice people — because, surely, Wally was nice — would say a host of critical things about someone to whom they would then be perfectly pleasant. At. St. Cloud's, criticism was plainer — and harder, if not impossible, to conceal.

But who can distinguish between falling in love and imagining falling in love? Even genuinely falling in love is an act of the imagination.