She 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 ConroyReading is the most rewarding form of exile and the most necessary discipline for novelists who burn with the ambition to get better.
Pat ConroyThe English language on her tongue became a smoke-screen, without her eyes changing expression in the least.
Pat ConroyIt is the secret life that sustains me now, and as I reach the top of that bridge I say it in a whisper, I say it as a prayer, as regret, and as praise. I can't tell you why I do it or what it means, but each night when I drive toward my southern home and my southern life, I whisper these words: 'Lowenstein, Lowenstein.
Pat Conroy