Of the Yamacraw children, I can say little. I don't think I changed the quality of their lives significantly or altered the inexorable fact that they were imprisoned by the very circumstance of their birth.
Pat ConroyBecause she deserved my tears if anyone on earth ever did. I could feel the tears within me, undiscovered, and untouched in their inland sea. Those tears had been with me always.
Pat ConroyBut no one walks out of his family without reprisals: a family is too disciplined an army to offer compassion to its deserters.
Pat Conroy