Quotes by : Maureen Corrigan

It's a gift of tranquility when your adult desires mesh with your childhood background. I don't quite....

I miss that world from the safe distance of memory.

The child who gets lost in a book can emerge from the experience a changeling.

Like overzealous religious converts, climbers originally from the lower rungs of society tend to go overboard....

I was assigned to the office of a recently deceased faculty member; the office hadn't been cleaned out....

The danger in reviewing and teaching literature for a living (is) you can develop a kind of knee-jerk....

Luckily, my job demands constant reading, otherwise I'd have to figure out some other excuse.

My students should be afraid: choosing what kind of work you'll do to a great extent means choosing who....

Meekly swallowing and assimilating the customs of the more powerful has always been a strategy by which....

Those straight-spined parishioners could justify their exhibitionism by telling themselves that they....