A library could show you everything if you knew where to look.
PAT CONROYA library could show you everything if you knew where to look.
PAT CONROYWhen mom and dad went to war the only prisoners they took were the children
PAT CONROYMy wound is geography. It is also my anchorage, my port of call.
PAT CONROYLove’s action. It isn’t talk and it never has been.
PAT CONROYI stood face to face with the moon and the ocean and the future that spread out with all its bewildering immensity before me.
PAT CONROYShe 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 by a collective of loving but treacherous relatives.
PAT CONROYGood writing … involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing them into the tight-fitting uniform of language, making them visible and clear.
PAT CONROYLike everything else, love’s not worth much without some action to back it up.
PAT CONROYEvil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law.
PAT CONROYAmerican men are allotted just as many tears as American women. But because we are forbidden to shed them.
PAT CONROYWalking the streets of Charleston in the late afternoons of August was like walking through gauze or inhaling damaged silk.
PAT CONROYThe English language on her tongue became a smoke-screen, without her eyes changing expression in the least.
PAT CONROYThere’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 myself and the entire family of man by becoming a teacher.
PAT CONROYA recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.
PAT CONROYEach divorce is the death of a small civilization.
PAT CONROYI’ve never had anyone’s approval, so I’ve learned to live without it.
PAT CONROY