Perfect doesn't just mean happy. Perfect can have lots of…

A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.

— Pat Conroy

Except for memory, time would have no meaning at all.

— Pat Conroy

It's an article of faith that the novels I've loved will live inside me forever.

— Pat Conroy

“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

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

Carolina beach music," Dupree said, coming up on the porch. "The holiest sound on earth.

— Pat Conroy

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“I take it as an article of faith that the novels I've loved will live inside me forever.”

— Pat Conroy