Bridgitte Rodguez

“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

“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

“I would like to have seen the world with eyes incapable of anything but wonder, and with a tongue fluent only in praise.”
― Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides

“Art is one of the few places where talent and madness can actually go to squirrel away inside each other.”
― Pat Conroy, My Reading Life