Red Hook Road made me happy, and happy to be alive. It took me out of my home on the coast of South Carolina, placed me in the town along Red hook Road, and changed me the way good books always do.
Carolina beach music," Dupree said, coming up on the porch. "The holiest sound on earth.
Love's action. It isn't talk and it never has been.
I think I learned about the relationship between books and life from Margaret Mitchell.
Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends.
Even today, I hunt for the fabulous books that will change me utterly. I find myself happiest in the middle of a book which I forget that I am reading, but am instead immersed in a made-up life lived at the highest pitch.