Bridgitte Rodguez

“Always believe in things and people that bring you pleasure. What good does it do to throw those things out the window?”
― Pat Conroy, The Great Santini

“The choices I didn’t make are almost as ruinous as the ones I did.”
― Pat Conroy, A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life

“It is an art form to hate New York City properly. So far I have always been a featherweight debunker of New York; it takes too much energy and endurance to record the infinite number of ways the city offends me. Were I to list them all, I would fill up a book the size of the Manhattan yellow pages, and that would merely be the prologue. Every time I submit myself to the snubs and indignities of that swaggering city and set myself adrift among the prodigious crowds, a feeling of displacement, profound and enervating, takes me over, killing all the coded cells of my hard-won singularity. The city marks my soul with a most profane, indelible graffiti. There is too much of too much there.”
― Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides

“Scarlett (O'Hara) taught that one could be hungry and despairing, but not broken and not without resources, spiritual in nature, that precluded one from surrendering without a fight”
― Pat Conroy