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

“I selected all my books for the possibility of some flare of candles along the road toward illumination or enchantment”
― Pat Conroy, My Reading Life

“That's what a good book does-it puts readers on their knees. It makes you want to believe in a world you just read about-the one that will make you feel different about the world you thought you lived in, the world that will never be the same.”
― Pat Conroy, My Reading Life

“College was to teach me that I was one of life's journeymen, eager to excel but lacking the requisite gifts.”
― Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides