My husband, also known as “Passive Guy” on his widely read blog, The Passive Voice, gave me these two wonderful quotes from My Reading Life by Pat Conroy:
, of taking in their portions of grief and wisdom, then they settle down in contented residence in your heart”
“The most powerful words in English are ‘Tell me a story,’ words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, the continuity of the species, the taproot of our humanity, our singularity, and art itself. I was born into the century in which novels lost their stories, poems their rhymes, paintings their form, and music its beauty
, but that does not mean I had to like that trend or go along with it. I fight against these movements with every book I write.”
