We've pretended too much in our family, Luke, and hidden far too much. I think we're all going to pay a high price for our inability to face the truth.
I was born and raised on a Carolina sea island and I carried the sunshine of the low-country, inked in dark gold, on my back and shoulders. - Pat Conroy
I was born and raised on a Carolina sea island and I carried the sunshine of the low-country, inked in dark gold, on my back and shoulders.
- Pat Conroy
There are no verdicts to childhood, only consequences, and the bright freight of memory. - Pat Conroy
There are no verdicts to childhood, only consequences, and the bright freight of memory.
Why do they not teach you that time is a finger snap and an eye blink, and that you should not allow a moment to pass you by without taking joyous, e… - Pat Conroy
Why do they not teach you that time is a finger snap and an eye blink, and that you should not allow a moment to pass you by without taking joyous, e…
There's no word in the language I revere more than 'teacher.' My heart sings when a kid refers to me as his teacher, and it always has. I've honored … - Pat Conroy
There's no word in the language I revere more than 'teacher.' My heart sings when a kid refers to me as his teacher, and it always has. I've honored …
The most powerful words in English are, 'Tell me a story.' - Pat Conroy
The most powerful words in English are, 'Tell me a story.'
To describe our growing up in the lowcountry of South Carolina, I would have to take you to the marsh on a spring day, flush the great blue heron fro… - Pat Conroy
To describe our growing up in the lowcountry of South Carolina, I would have to take you to the marsh on a spring day, flush the great blue heron fro…
I only hope to do well enough before I die to have a house as big as my rich Uncle Ed and Aunt Carole. - Pat Conroy
I only hope to do well enough before I die to have a house as big as my rich Uncle Ed and Aunt Carole.
I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood. - Pat Conroy
I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood.
Charleston has a landscape that encourages intimacy and partisanship. I have heard it said that an inoculation to the sights and smells of the Caroli… - Pat Conroy
Charleston has a landscape that encourages intimacy and partisanship. I have heard it said that an inoculation to the sights and smells of the Caroli…
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