37 Quotes by Patricia McConnell

The loss of a sexual life is one of the worst things about getting really old. The worst thing.

At eighty-one, health club-lusting is as close as I'll ever come to getting laid again.

I felt compelled to blow the whistle on the penal system, under the delusion that doing so might result in some change, or at least save a few women from the same fate. Eternally naïve, that's me.

I couldn't stand living in a society that admires the emperor's new clothes, when I see so clearly that he is naked.

My published works are concrete evidence that I exist.

Prison experience puts distance between me and any person who hasn't been there, done that.

I was already a wreck when I went in, and prison nearly destroyed what little was left of me. I was worse when I came out than I was when I went in, and was not positively changed in any way.

A crisis of confidence is so common that it should be considered a universal part of the adoption process.

There's a stone I had made for Luke at the top of the hill road, where the pasture opens wide and the setting sun highlights the words carved into its face. "That'll do, Luke, that'll do." The words are said to working dogs all over the world when the chores are done and the flock is settled: "That'll do dog, come home now, your work is done." Luke's work is done too. He took my heart and ran with it, and he's running still, fast and strong, a piece of my heart bound up with his, forever.