Good Boys and Dead Girls Quotes

“All the Jane Austen in the library cannot wash the Queens from this little hand.”
― Mary Gordon, Good Boys and Dead Girls: And Other Essays

“One of the drawbacks of upward social mobility is a sense of guilty indebtedness to the old neighborhood.”
― Mary Gordon, Good Boys and Dead Girls: And Other Essays

“The Catholic Church in America is the Irish church. It is our church, end of story. We built it. We paid for it. It is ours. No Mexicans need apply.”
― Mary Gordon, Good Boys and Dead Girls: And Other Essays