Quotes from book
Beach Music

Beach Music is Pat Conroy's novel of Jack McCall, a South Carolina native who flees the South with his daughter Leah after his wife commits suicide. This novel explores the Vietnam War-era, the Holocaust, and coming of age in the 20th century. It was published in 1995.


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“Love's action. It isn't talk and it never has been.”

Source: Beach Music

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Pat Conroy photo
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“Fantasy is one of the soul's brighter porcelains.”

Source: Beach Music

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