478 Quotes by Pat Conroy

Lucy stood on her tiptoes and kissed John Hardin on the cheek and pulled him tightly against her. She put his forehead against hers and smiled at him until he blushed. Then, Lucy stepped back, looked at the coffin, and played to the crowd. Who gave my secret away It's just what I always wanted and I can't wait to try it on

I became one of those anonymous Americans who tries to keep his mind sharp and inquisitive while performing all the humiliating rituals of the middle class

They succeeded not only in making me normal but also in making me dull .

The narrator analyzes that the maturing, passing away boy within him, "had issued me a challenge as he passed the baton to the man in me: He had challenged me to have the courage to become a gentle, harmless man.

College was to teach me that I was one of life's journeymen, eager to excel but lacking the requisite gifts.

It would always be my burden, not that I lacked genius, but that I was fully aware of it.

Love had always issued out of the places that hurt the most.

The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life.

Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself.