Mary O'Connor > Quotes

“It's not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy. The bee is praised. The mosquito is swatted.”
― Mary O'Connor

“I remembered the syndrome, a thing I would describe as a “Mission Accomplished Fatigue,” a singular condition that often follows the successful completion of a protracted construction project. Officially undiagnosed, its common manifestations include depression, lassitude, and fatalism. Comparable to postpartum depression in its singularity of cause, the best evocation of its effect is suggested in the Jerry”
― Mary O'Connor, Free Rose Light: Stories around South Street

“His internal God-inspired vision for himself was realized through the acceptance of his previously unacceptable physical vision.”
― Mary O'Connor, Free Rose Light: Stories around South Street

“It had the rhythm and suspense of a juggler adding more objects to the spinning collection already airborne. Sometimes”
― Mary O'Connor, Free Rose Light: Stories around South Street