Debbie Jackson

“American men are allotted just as many tears as American women. But because we are forbidden to shed them, we die long before women do, with our hearts exploding or our blood pressure rising or our livers eaten away by alcohol because that lake of grief inside us has no outlet. We, men, die because our faces were not watered enough.”
― Pat Conroy, Beach Music

“Her laughter was a shiny thing, like pewter flung high in the air.”
― Pat Conroy, Beach Music

“I could bear the memory, but I could not bear the music that made the memory such a killing thing.”
― Pat Conroy, Beach Music

“The water was pure and cold and came out of the Apennines tasting like snow melted in the hands of a pretty girl.”
― Pat Conroy, Beach Music