Tami Rose

“She had a grocer's faith in books; they can be handed out like Green Stamps and were redeemable for a variety of useful gifts.”
― Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides

“We children sat transfixed before that moon our mother had called forth from the waters. When the moon had reached its deepest silver, my sister, Savannah, though only three, cried aloud to our mother, to Luke and me, to the river and the moon, "Oh, Mama, do it again!" And I had my earliest memory.”
― Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides

“Like many men and women who make egregious and irretrievable mistakes with their own children, she would redeem herself by becoming the perfect grandmother.”
― Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides

“There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing