Reading is the most rewarding form of exile and the most necessary discipline for novelists who burn with the ambition to get better.
Pat ConroyIn Charleston, more than elsewhere, you get the feeling that the twentieth century is a vast, unconscionable mistake.
Pat ConroyComely was the town by the curving river that they dismantled in a year's time. Beautiful was Colleton in her last spring as she flung azaleas like a girl throwing rice at a desperate wedding. In dazzling profusion, Colleton ripened in a gauze of sweet gardens and the town ached beneath a canopy of promissory fragrance.
Pat Conroy