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“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

“Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.”
― Pat Conroy, The Lords of Discipline

“Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.”
― Pat Conroy, Beach Music

“I don’t 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, Beach Music

“A story untold could be the one that kills you.”
― Pat Conroy

“I’ve never had anyone’s approval, so I’ve learned to live without it.”
― Pat Conroy, The Great Santini

“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

“I could bear the memory, but I could not bear the music that made the memory such a killing thing.”
― Pat Conroy, Beach Music

“Her laughter was a shiny thing, like pewter flung high in the air.”
― Pat Conroy, Beach Music

“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, The Prince of Tides

“Some things don’t mix. Some things don’t mix at all, but sometimes in life you have to take the risk.”
― Pat Conroy, The Lords of Discipline

“I stood face to face with the moon and the ocean and the future that spread out with all its bewildering immensity before me.”
― Pat Conroy

“In family matters you can get over anything. That's one thing you'll learn as an adult. There's a lot you have to learn which is a lot worse than that. You'd never think of forgiving a friend for some of the things your parents did to you. But with friends it's different. Friends aren't the roll of the dice.”
― Pat Conroy

“Know this. I think you could be special if you only thought there was anything special about yourself.”
― Pat Conroy, My Losing Season: A Memoir

“Like everything else, love's not worth much without some action to back it up.”
― Pat Conroy, Beach Music

“Because she deserved my tears if anyone on earth ever did. I could feel the tears within me, undiscovered, and untouched in their inland sea. Those tears had been with me always.”
― Pat Conroy, Beach Music

“She had awakened something in him that had slumbered far too long. Not only did he feel passion, he felt the return of hope.”
― Pat Conroy

“...I realize words are never enough; they stutter and cleave to the roof of my mouth.”
― Pat Conroy, South of Broad

“One can learn anything, anything at all, I thought, if provided by a gifted and passionate teacher.”
― Pat Conroy, Beach Music

“You will hurt people. You will hurt, and you will be hurt. However, you will also love, and you will be loved in the most magnificent ways. To live life is to understand that together these extremes thrive within us — our heart is both a blessing and a blade. To put our soul into the hands of someone who could wound it or heal it is quite possibly the most courageously beautiful risk we take. It is like looking someone right in the eye and saying “You may hurt me, but you may also love me, and I am willing to take that chance. I am willing to trust.”
― Bianca Sparacino, Seeds Planted in Concrete

“One day you will meet someone who crashes into your bones like a wildfire, setting your heart ablaze, and together you will burn and spark and love until you wake up one morning beside the ashes of what was. However, it won’t end there – for just as wood still holds an ember long after a blaze, you will always taste forest fires in the back of your throat whenever you hear their name.”
― Bianca Sparacino, Seeds Planted in Concrete

“All of the love you have given to the wrong people— it will find its way back to you.”
― Bianca Sparacino, The Strength In Our Scars

“Because you have been hurt before, you fall in love with anyone who shows you their soul. You know how much courage that takes.”
― Bianca Sparacino, The Strength In Our Scars

“It took us years to understand that love was not meant to justify hurt.”
― Bianca Sparacino, Seeds Planted in Concrete