Pat Conroy Quotes About Memories

Quotes about: Memories

• I could bear the memory, but I could not bear the music that made the memory such a killing thing.

  Pat Conroy

  Memories, Bears, Killing

  Pat Conroy (1995). “Beach Music”, Nan A. Talese

• To describe our growing up in the lowcountry of South Carolina, I would have to take you to the marsh on a spring day, flush the great blue heron from its silent occupation, scatter marsh hens as we sink to our knees in mud, open an oyster with a pocketknife and feed it to you from the shell and say, 'There. That taste. That's the taste of my childhood.'

  Pat Conroy

  Growing Up, Memories, Spring

  Pat Conroy (2010). “The Prince of Tides: A Novel”, p.9, Open Road Media

• Rape is a crime against sleep and memory; it's afterimage imprints itself like an irreversible negative from the camera obscura of dreams.

  Pat Conroy

  Dream, Memories, Sleep

  Pat Conroy (2010). “The Prince of Tides: A Novel”, p.344, Open Road Media

• Except for memory, time would have no meaning at all.

  Pat Conroy

  Memories

  Pat Conroy (1995). “Beach Music”, Nan A. Talese

• We children sat transfixed before that moon our mother had called forth from the waters. When the moon had reached its deepest silver, my sister, Savannah, though only three, cried aloud to our mother, to Luke and me, to the river and the moon, "Oh, Mama, do it again!" And I had my earliest memory.

  Pat Conroy

  Mother, Children, Memories

  Pat Conroy (2016). “The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline, and The Prince of Tides: Three Classic Novels in One Collection”, p.759, Open Road Media

• There are no verdicts to childhood, only consequences, and the bright freight of memory.

  Pat Conroy

  Memories, Childhood, Verdict

  Pat Conroy (2010). “The Prince of Tides: A Novel”, p.59, Open Road Media

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