I could bear the memory, but I could not bear the music that made the memory such a killing thing.
("Beach Music")
More Quotes from Pat Conroy:
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.Pat Conroy
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.
Pat Conroy
A family is one of nature's solubles; it dissolves in time like salt in rainwater.
Pat Conroy
I donÆt know why it is that I have always been happier thinking of somewhere I have been or wanted to go, than where I am at the time. I find it difficult to be happy in the present.
Pat Conroy
The water was pure and cold and came out of the Apennines tasting like snow melted in the hands of a pretty girl.
Pat Conroy
Those wishing to be successful in the market can't ignore the boomer numbers, the wealth and spending power they have. The boomers have redefined every age they've moved through, so there's no reason to believe they will not redefine the stereotypes of what it means to be retired.
Pat Conroy
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Memory Quotes, Music QuotesAging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.
Kitty ONeill Collins
Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
It has been demonstrated that no system, not even the most inhuman, can continue to exist without an ideology.
Joe Slovo