Lisa Moeller

“A man's only got so many yeses inside him before he uses them all up.”
― Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides

“This is what makes me crazy in this family, Dad. I don't care that you hit us. I really don't. That's over and there's nothing any of us can do about it. But I can't stand it when I state a simple fact about this family's history and I'm told by you or Mom that it didn't happen. But you've got to know, Dad, and I'm saying this as a son who loves you, that you were a shit to your kids. Not all the time. Not every day. Not every month. But we never knew what would set you off. We never knew when your temper would explode and we'd have the strongest shrimper on the river knocking us around the house. So we learned to be afraid without making a sound. And Mom was a loyal wife to you, Dad. She would never let us tell a soul that you were hitting us. Most of the time, she was like you and would simply tell us it didn't happen the way we remembered it.”
― Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides

“Violence send deep roots into the heart, it has no seasons, it is always ripe, evergreen.”
― Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides

“There are no verdicts to childhood, only consequences, and the bright freight of memory.”
― Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides