A Prayer for Owen Meany Quotes

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A Prayer for Owen Meany Quotes

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I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice—not because of his voice or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother’s death, but because he is the reason I believe in God. I am a Christian because of Owen Meany. (Chapter 1)

It makes me ashamed to remember that I was angry with him for taking my armadillo’s claws. God knows, Owen gave me more than he ever took from me---even when you consider he took my mother. (Chapter 2)

It made him furious when I suggested that anything was an ‘accident’—especially anything that had happened to him; on the subject of predestination, Owen Meany would accuse Calvin of bad faith. There were no accidents; there was a reason for that baseball—just as there was a reason for Owen being small, and a reason for... (Chapter 3)

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