The Prince of Tides
Pat Conroy
Top 10 Best Quotes
“You get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.”
“My wound is geography. It is also my anchorage, my port of call.”
“Teach them the quiet words of kindness, to live beyond themselves. Urge them toward excellence, drive them toward gentleness, pull them deep into yourself, pull them upward toward manhood, but softly like an angel arranging clouds. Let your spirit move through them softly.”
“There is such a thing as too much beauty in a woman and it is often a burden as crippling as homeliness and far more dangerous. It takes much luck and integrity to survive the gift of perfect beauty, and its impermanence is its most cunning betrayal.”
“These are the quicksilver moments of my childhood I cannot remember entirely. Irresistible and emblematic, I can recall them only in fragments and shivers of the heart.”
“Man wonders but God decides When to kill the Prince of Tides.”
“The only word for goodness is goodness, and it is not enough.”
“Rape is a crime against sleep and memory; it's afterimage imprints itself like an irreversible negative from the camera obscura of dreams.”
“She was one of those Southerners who knew from an early age that the South could never be more for them than a fragrant prison, administered by a collective of loving but treacherous relatives.”
“A family is one of nature's solubles; it dissolves in time like salt in rainwater.”
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