Pete Orsi

“No, of course I don’t. You two were crazy about each other. She was hearing the voices that killed her when she was a little girl. John Hardin hears those same voices. There’s a kind of songbird too pretty to fly with the crows and the starlings. The other birds attack it in flocks and tear it apart when it starts to sing. Nothing soft endures. Nature loathes meekness and goodness. Shyla got hurt early and deep. You kept her from the bridge as long as you could, son.”
― Pat Conroy, Beach Music

“Why do we die? We begin to answer the question simply: because we are alive.”
― Kathleen D. Singh, The Grace in Dying: A Message of Hope, Comfort and Spiritual Transformation

“Time passing,” Jordan said, his eyes casting upward toward the stars. “It’s the big surprise in life. It might be the only one.”
― Pat Conroy, Beach Music

“will see how we arrived at our present developmental level of personal consciousness”
― Kathleen D. Singh, The Grace in Dying: A Message of Hope, Comfort and Spiritual Transformation