“So maybe my own life is not so drastic and dreadful...maybe I am just like all those other girls who have come before me with their oily T-zones and random terrible days and bittersweet triumphs, the world billowing out behind… — Mary O'Connell Copy Share Image
“So maybe my own life is not so drastic and dreadful...maybe I am just like all those other girls who have come before me… — Mary O'Connell Copy Share Image
“Love was the map, and I would have to draw it myself; I would be the most repentant cartographer, verve and passion making up… — Mary O'Connell Copy Share Image
“I stared up at the sky with zero curiosity about the Kingdom of Heaven because the physical world was plenty.” — Mary O'Connell Copy Share Image
“If AP English via Miss Sweeney had taught Flannery anything, it was that life was brimming with various traumas and tragedies—the great novels didn’t… — Mary O'Connell Copy Share Image
