T. S. Garp [after being told he shouldn't go to his Mom's feminist memorial]
I will grieve alone for the rest of my life, but right now I want to be around people who loved her.
Most-quoted character in The World According to Garp (1982): in 9 of its 13 quotes
Most scenes with: Jenny Fields (3)
We'll take the house. Honey, the chances of another plane hitting this house are astronomical. It's been pre-disastered. We're going to be safe here.
More lines from T. S. Garp
3 quotes T. S. Garp T. S. Garp [to his infant son in baby carriage]
Don't be a baby, Duncan! Say da-da! [Duncan blows raspberry at Garp]
T. S. Garp Men die young in my family, Helen!
Scenes with T. S. Garp
5 scenes
Are you gonna go to sleep or you gonna stay up and think your weird thoughts?
Young Garp
I'll stay up and think weird thoughts for a while.
Walt
Daddy what's gradual school?
T. S. Garp What?
Walt
Gradual school. Mommy say's she teaches at gradual school.
T. S. Garp Oh Gradual school is where you go to school and you gradually find out you don't want to go to school anymore.
T. S. Garp No, Mom, that's the oldest profession.
[while telling Dean Bodger and her son about his father, who was a brain damaged WW2 veteran with spontaneous erections she was the nurse of]
Where was I?
T. S. Garp He kept having erections.
Thank you. He was dying. I wanted a child. It was a good way to have one without the bother of a husband around... who had legal rights to my body. So, one night at work... when the wounded and maimed were all asleep, I went to him. He was asleep. But his erection was there, as always. I removed my undergarments and climbed on top of him. He woke up then. He said the only word other than his name that I ever heard him utter. He said, "good." It didn't take very long, and that once was all that was needed.
Dean Bodger
You raped him! You raped a dying man!
T. S. Garp Remember, Helen.
Helen Holm What, my love?
T. S. Garp Everything.
Helen Holm Yes, my love.
