# Beach Music

- Author: [Pat Conroy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pat-conroy.md)
- Quotes: 10
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/pat-conroy/beach-music

## Quotes

> But no one walks out of his family without reprisals: a family is too disciplined an army to offer compassion to its deserters.

p. 14 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pat-conroy/beach-music/but-no-one.md)

> Fantasy is one of the soul's brighter porcelains.

p. 417 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pat-conroy/beach-music/fantasy-is-one.md)

> I do not know why it is that I have always been happier thinking of somewhere I have been or wanted to go, than where I am at the time. I find it difficult to be happy in the present.

p. 244 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pat-conroy/beach-music/i-do-not.md)

> The water was pure and cold and came out of the Apennines tasting like snow melted in the hands of a pretty girl.

p. 111 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pat-conroy/beach-music/the-water-was.md)

> In silence, we watched the water shimmer like a peacock's feather in that shining foil of soft tide in retreat.

p. 539 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pat-conroy/beach-music/in-silence-we-watched.md)

> "Carolina beach music," Dupree said, coming up on the porch. "The holiest sound on earth."

p. 469 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pat-conroy/beach-music/carolina-beach-music.md)

> The best thing about a small town is that you grow up knowing everyone. It is also the worst thing.

p. 246 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pat-conroy/beach-music/the-best-thing.md)

> "It's politics, sugarpeeps," I said. "It makes everybody stupid. When you grow up, you'll know what I mean."

p. 109 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pat-conroy/beach-music/its-politics-sugarpeeps.md)

> [...] I learned from those evening recitals that music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.

p. 548 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pat-conroy/beach-music/i-learned-from.md)

> One can do anything, anything at all, I thought, if provided with a passionate and gifted teacher.

p. 536 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pat-conroy/beach-music/one-can-do-anything.md)