It enclosed us in its laceries as we watched the moon spill across the Atlantic like wine from an overturned glass. With the light all around us, we felt secret in that moon-infused water like pearls forming in the soft tissues of oysters.
Pat ConroyOnce he had drawn first blood, his war against the property of the state lost all its moral resonance.
Pat ConroyI was the only person in the world who thought it was a military duty to appear to be in a good mood.
Pat Conroy