# Quote — Pat Conroy, Beach Music

> 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.

- Author: [Pat Conroy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pat-conroy.md)
- Book: [Beach Music](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pat-conroy/beach-music.md)
- Page: 244
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pat_Conroy#Beach_Music_(1995)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/pat-conroy/beach-music/i-do-not

## More from this book

> 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)

> 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)