The Prince of Tides

by Pat Conroy

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.

Eventually she will die the way all old people in America die … from humiliation, incontinence, boredom, and neglect.

There’s no word in the language I revere more than teacher. None. My heart sings when a kid refers to me as his teacher and it always has. I’ve honored myself and the entire family of man by becoming one.”