In every southerner, beneath the veneer of clichés lies a much deeper motherlode of cliché. But even cliché is overlaid with enormous power when a child is involved.
Pat ConroyTag: conformity parenting conventional-wisdom
A portion of guilt is standard issue for southern boys; our whole lives are convoluted, egregious apologies to our mothers because our fathers have made us such flawed husbands.
Pat ConroyTag: family marriage generational-curse
Saints make wonderful grandfathers and lousy husbands.
Pat ConroyThe desolate narrowness, the definitive thinness of experience is both the vainglory and the dead giveaway of a provincial man.
Pat ConroyTag: experience education perspective culture
She thought she brought a gift of compassion for those exhausted souls who had not received a chest portion from the people who raised them. If compassion and therapy did not work, she could always send her patients to the local pharmacy for drugs.
Pat ConroyTag: psychiatry therapy counseling
As his children, we were treated as some species of migrant workers who happened to be passing through. My father was the only person I ever knew who looked upon childhood as a dishonorable vocation one grew out of as quickly as possible.
Pat ConroyTag: childhood parenting maturity
I learned that if I could read, I could cook. I surprised myself I like it.
Pat ConroyTag: cooking servant-leader
It would always be my burden, not that I lacked genius, but that I was fully aware of it.
Pat ConroyTag: humility genius self-awareness
College was to teach me that I was one of life's journeymen, eager to excel but lacking the requisite gifts.
Pat ConroyTag: education ambition humility maturity
I lived with the terrible knowledge that one day I would be an old man still waiting for my real life to start. Already, I pitied that old man.
Pat ConroyTag: potential complacency
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