Carolina beach music," Dupree said, coming up on the porch. "The holiest sound on earth. — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“She understood the nature of sin and knew that its most volatile form was the kind that did not recognize itself.” — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“Don’t go yet. Please. Tell me a story, one about us. Tell what it meant. How on earth did it happen? The… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
I have found human nature a bit contradictory in my living of it. Human life is incredibly strange. — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration. — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
A family is one of nature's solubles; it dissolves in time like salt in rainwater. — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“Somewhere, the billion dreams of the town since its origin stirred in a maelstrom far from the reach of the shrimpers’ nets.… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Because she deserved my tears if anyone on earth ever did. I could feel the tears within me, undiscovered, and untouched in… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“When we cuss each other out, call each other the vilest names on earth, and put each other down with thoughtless cruelty,… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“Scarlett (O'Hara) taught that one could be hungry and despairing, but not broken and not without resources, spiritual in nature, that precluded… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“I meditated on the nature of friendship as I practiced the craft. My friends had always come from outside the mainstream. I… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“It was growing dark on this long southern evening, and suddenly, at the exact point her finger had indicated, the moon lifted… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“We began our life together at a moment of natural self-pity and defeat that left an inimitable impression on both of us.… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
It's an article of faith that the novels I've loved will live inside me forever. — Pat Conroy Copy Share
“my folks wouldn't read a book if you put a gun to their dicks. but they read people all day long and always get… — Pat Conroy Copy Share
Cameras are a lifesaver for very shy people who have nowhere else to hide. Behind a lens they can disguise the fact that they… — Pat Conroy Copy Share
Carolina beach music," Dupree said, coming up on the porch. "The holiest sound on earth. — Pat Conroy Copy Share
“My memory often seems like a city of exiled poets afire with the astonishment of language, each believing in the integrity of his own… — Pat Conroy Copy Share
“We began our life together at a moment of natural self-pity and defeat that left an inimitable impression on both of us. The rejection… — Pat Conroy Copy Share
“I always liked your piety, Jack.” “I’m a lot cuter than the women of your generation,” Betsy said, playing up to Capers and Mike.… — Pat Conroy Copy Share
“From the beginning I've searched out those writers unafraid to stir up the emotions, who entrust me with their darkest passions, their most indestructible… — Pat Conroy Copy Share
“My mother's voice and my father's fists are two bookends of my childhood, and they form the basis of my art.” — Pat Conroy Copy Share
“Over the years, my church gave me passage into a menagerie of exotic words unknown in the South: "introit," "offertory," "liturgy," "movable feast," "the… — Pat Conroy Copy Share
“I have built a city from the books I've read. A good book sings a a timeless music that is heard in the choir… — Pat Conroy Copy Share
“Time moves funny and it's hard to pin down. Occasionally, time offers you a hundred opportunities to do the right thing. Sometimes, it gives… — Pat Conroy Copy Share
“I take it as an article of faith that the novels I've loved will live inside me forever.” — Pat Conroy Copy Share
