""I think that sometimes the great changes in our lives, the ones that divide time, happen so deep down and silently that we don't even know when they occur......It frequently happens that the seasons of the greatest change are the times that feel the most tranquil, the most suspended, the most...timeless.""
— Anne Rivers Siddons (Downtown)

"Sometimes I could scarcely breathe with the knowledge that for the rest of my life, whenever we wanted, Peter and I could lie down and do whatever we wished."
— Anne Rivers Siddons (Colony)

"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."
— Pat Conroy (The Prince of Tides)

"Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide."
— Pat Conroy (Beach Music)

"Fantasy is one of the soul's brighter porcelains."
— Pat Conroy (Beach Music)

"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."
— Pat Conroy (The Prince of Tides)

"Men are prisoners of their genitalia and women are the keepers of the keys to paradise."
— Pat Conroy (Beach Music)

"Man wonders but God decides when to kill the Prince of Tides."
— Pat Conroy (The Prince of Tides)

"But ever her demons she invested with inordinate beauty, consecrated them with the dignity of her attention."
— Pat Conroy (The Prince of Tides)

"I do not have any other way of saying it. I think it happens but once and only to the very young when it feels like your skin could ignite at the mere touch of another person. You get to love like that but once."
— Pat Conroy (Beach Music)

"Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration."
— Pat Conroy (The Lords of Discipline)

"I had the need to be the good master, but definitely the master, no matter what the cost."
— Pat Conroy (The Lords of Discipline)

"My wound is geography. It is also my achorage, my port of call"
— Pat Conroy

"We set down feasts for each other and treated our love with tongues of fire. Our bodies were fields of wonder to us."
— Pat Conroy (Beach Music)