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She had faith in words, believing in their ability to carry inexpressible messages, trusting that what cannot be said can somehow be borne aloft by what can be said. She was right.


Frank Conroy

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PAT CONROY Comely was the town by the curving river that they dismantled in a year's time. Beautiful was Collet...
PAT CONROY There are no verdicts to childhood, only consequences, and the bright freight of memory.
PAT CONROY The fruit tasted foreign but indigenous, like sunlight a tree had changed through patience.
PAT CONROY I realized early that unless you're willing to kill the innocent, you can't win.
PAT CONROY But, as I watch this film, I often think that the boy did not know what he was really running toward...
PAT CONROY We've pretended too much in our family, Luke, and hidden far too much. I think we're all going to pa...
PAT CONROY It was growing dark on this long southern evening, and suddenly, at the exact point her finger had i...
PAT CONROY I lived with the terrible knowledge that one day I would be an old man still waiting for my real lif...
PAT CONROY Every woman I had ever met who walked through the world appraised and classified by an extraordinary...
PAT CONROY We children sat transfixed before that moon our mother had called forth from the waters. When the mo...
PAT CONROY In families, there are no crimes beyond forgiveness.
PAT CONROY Her library would have been valuable to a bibliophile except she treated her books execrably. I woul...
PAT CONROY When men talk about the agony of being men, they can never quite get away from the recurrent theme o...
PAT CONROY He was one of those rare men who are capable of being fully in love only once in their lives.
PAT CONROY There are no ideas in the South, just barbecue.
PAT CONROY Rape is a crime against sleep and memory; it's after image imprints itself like an irreversible nega...
PAT CONROY But even her demons she invested with inordinate beauty, consecrated them with the dignity of her at...
PAT CONROY Teach them the quiet words of kindness, to live beyond themselves. Urge them toward excellence, driv...
PAT CONROY