All Pat Conroy Quotes
- …Then another porpoise broke the water and rolled toward us. A third and fourth porpoise neared. The visitation was something so rare and perfect that… All
- The English language on her tongue became a smoke-screen, without her eyes changing expression in the least. Became
- I do not have any other way of saying it. I think it happens but once and only to the very young when it feels… Another Person
- Anyone who knows me well must understand and be sympathetic to my genuine need to be my own greatest hero. It is not a flaw… Anyone
- Some things don’t mix. Some things don’t mix at all, but sometimes in life you have to take the risk. All
- Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break… Break
- Carolina beach music," Dupree said, coming up on the porch. "The holiest sound on earth. Beach
- A story untold could be the one that kills you. Funny
- Charleston has a landscape that encourages intimacy and partisanship. I have heard it said that an inoculation to the sights and smells of the Carolina… Alien
- Walking the streets of Charleston in the late afternoons of August was like walking through gauze or inhaling damaged silk. Afternoon
- Man wonders but God decides When to kill the Prince of Tides. Decides
- If smallness was fortune, then I had come across a treasure, infinitesimal and beyond value. I felt lucky. You had to decide what was estimable… Across
- Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration. Aberration
- But even her demons she invested with inordinate beauty, consecrated them with the dignity of her attention. Attention
- She was one of those Southerners who knew from an early age that the South could never be more for them than a fragrant prison,… Administered
- My mother, Southern to the bone, once told me, “All Southern literature can be summed up in these words: ‘On the night the hogs ate… All
- My wound is geography. It is also my anchorage, my port of call. Anchorage
- The fruit tasted foreign but indigenous, like sunlight a tree had changed through patience. Changed
- I’ve never had anyone’s approval, so I’ve learned to live without it. Anyone
- I stood face to face with the moon and the ocean and the future that spread out with all its bewildering immensity before me. All