I don’t think I would ever want to be a writer of detective stories - but I would like to be a detective and there is a large deal of detection in th…

- Mary Lavin

Her theme was happiness: what it was; what it was not; where we might find it, where not; and how, if found, it must be guarded. Never must we confou…

- Mary Lavin

"Take my own father! You know what he said in his last moments? On his deathbed, he defied me to name a man who had enjoyed a better life. In spite o…

- Mary Lavin