“Evil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law.”
Pat Conroy The Lords of Discipline
Forrás: The Lords of Discipline
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“Evil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law.”
Pat Conroy The Lords of Discipline
Forrás: The Lords of Discipline
Letter to his readers (1998)
“Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.”
Pat Conroy The Lords of Discipline
Forrás: The Lords of Discipline
“Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.”
Pat Conroy könyv Beach Music
Forrás: Beach Music
“I’ve never had anyone’s approval, so I’ve learned to live without it.”
Pat Conroy könyv The Great Santini
Forrás: The Great Santini
“My wound is geography. It is also my anchorage, my port of call.”
Pat Conroy könyv The Prince of Tides
Forrás: The Prince of Tides
“I could bear the memory, but I could not bear the music that made the memory such a killing thing.”
Pat Conroy könyv Beach Music
Forrás: Beach Music
Pat Conroy könyv The Prince of Tides
Forrás: The Prince of Tides
“Her laughter was a shiny thing, like pewter flung high in the air.”
Pat Conroy könyv Beach Music
Forrás: Beach Music
Forrás: My Reading Life
Pat Conroy könyv The Prince of Tides
Forrás: The Prince of Tides
Pat Conroy The Lords of Discipline
Forrás: The Lords of Discipline
“The only word for goodness is goodness, and it is not enough.”
Pat Conroy könyv The Prince of Tides
Forrás: The Prince of Tides
“Man wonders but God decides
When to kill the Prince of Tides.”
Pat Conroy könyv The Prince of Tides
Forrás: The Prince of Tides
Pat Conroy könyv The Prince of Tides
Forrás: The Prince of Tides
Pat Conroy South of Broad
Forrás: South of Broad
“There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss.”
Forrás: My Losing Season: A Memoir
“A family is one of nature's solubles; it dissolves in time like salt in rainwater.”
Pat Conroy könyv The Prince of Tides
Forrás: The Prince of Tides
“Carolina beach music," Dupree said, coming up on the porch. "The holiest sound on earth.”
Pat Conroy könyv Beach Music
Forrás: Beach Music