Tell Me A Story Quotes

“The photos confirm what those of us gathered that evening witnessed, no matter how unlikely it seems. A few minutes before Pat died, a bridge appeared over his beloved creek as if to offer him a passage from this world to the next.”
― Cassandra King Conroy, Tell Me a Story: My Life with Pat Conroy

“How could anyone see this and not believe in God?”
― Cassandra King Conroy, Tell Me a Story: My Life with Pat Conroy

“In the fable the industrious ant was busy storing up for winter while the grasshopper fiddled and frolicked and frittered away his resources. According to Jim, most Conroys were ants. Jim and his brother Mike, both ants, had married outside their species by hooking up with grasshoppers. Their sister Kathy was an ant married to an ant; while brother Tim and sister Carol were ants with their provisions and grasshoppers with other people’s. “You, my dear,” Pat said with a glance my way, “are obviously an ant. I’ve never met an ant who wasn’t proud and pious about it. You’ll fit right in with my family.” “And what are you?” I teased. “Now what do you think? Unlike you stingy, miserly ants hoarding your last dime in your tight little fists, we grasshoppers”
― Cassandra King Conroy, Tell Me a Story: My Life with Pat Conroy

“I’m the kind of person who worries that something must be wrong if I don’t have anything to worry about.”
― Cassandra King Conroy, Tell Me a Story: My Life with Pat Conroy

“Oh, come on, sweetheart,” Pat said wearily. “You know as well as I do. Get that much family together and you’re asking for trouble. Nothing sets off a family’s dysfunction like weddings and funerals.”
― Cassandra King Conroy, Tell Me a Story: My Life with Pat Conroy

“Don Conroy is not the only man who knew he’d messed up with his own children and looked at the next generation as a chance to make amends.”
― Cassandra King Conroy, Tell Me a Story: My Life with Pat Conroy

“It’s the way of beauty, I thought. Destruction and devastation are always there, always demanding our attention. The chaos of life makes us forget that sometimes, if we don’t get too distracted by the wreckage, the losses and heartbreaks, we’re offered a glimpse of something better, maybe even something we can call divine. But we’ll miss it if we forget that beauty, like joy, is fleeting and never lasts more than a moment.”
― Cassandra King Conroy, Tell Me a Story: My Life with Pat Conroy

“One thing I’ve learned about trouble—it has a way of finding you whether you look for it or not.”
― Cassandra King Conroy, Tell Me a Story: My Life with Pat Conroy

“things seemed to be hurling downhill like a snowball headed for hell.”
― Cassandra King Conroy, Tell Me a Story: My Life with Pat Conroy

“it’s the way I put myself to sleep at night. Instead of sheep, I count potential disasters.”
― Cassandra King Conroy, Tell Me a Story: My Life with Pat Conroy

“never expected life to be so tragic, did you? I mean, I knew it’d be hard, but sad? I don’t know how any of us do it.”
― Cassandra King Conroy, Tell Me a Story: My Life with Pat Conroy

“The sin of self-indulgence always exacts its price from the sinner.”
― Cassandra King Conroy, Tell Me a Story: My Life with Pat Conroy