Pat Conroy Quotes
| My mother, Southern to the bone, once told me, "All Southern literature can be summed up in these words: 'On the night the hogs ate Willie, Mama died when she heard what Daddy did to Sister.'" She raised me up to be a Southern writer, but it wasn't easy. |
| My mother thought of my father as half barbarian and half blunt instrument, and she isolated him from his children. |
| The children of warriors in our country learn the grace and caution that come from a permanent sense of estrangement. |
