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Pat Conroy Quotes about Memories

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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