Dear Reader Quotes

“It was best to be pined for when you went missing.”
― Mary O'Connell, Dear Reader: A Novel

“And Heathcliff? What an evil fellow. Or is he merely misunderstood?”
― Mary O'Connell, Dear Reader

“Oh. My. God. Have I Gone Intertextual?”
― Mary O'Connell, Dear Reader

“How hard it was to be a person in the world, to make your way through.”
― Mary O'Connell, Dear Reader

“Love was best seen from a filtered distance, not in oily close-up.”
― Mary O'Connell, Dear Reader

“Love was the map, and I would have to draw it myself; I would be the most repentant cartographer, verve and passion making up for skill, for basic understanding.”
― Mary O'Connell, Dear Reader

“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 lie—and that there was no need to court sorrow by writing Goth poetry in a black spiral notebook or listening to death-rock because sorrow was always, always looming, sorrow would be thrust upon you, and, as the foot-stomping song from the junior year musical went—everyone was a girl who couldn’t say no, everyone was in a terrible fix. But”
― Mary O'Connell, Dear Reader