Beach Music Quotes.

1. "Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide."
- Pat Conroy, Beach Music

2. "American men are allotted just as many tears as American women. But because we are forbidden to shed them, we die long before women do, with our hearts exploding or our blood pressure rising or our livers eaten away by alcohol because that lake of grief inside us has no outlet. We, men, die because our faces were not watered enough."
- Pat Conroy, Beach Music

3. "I don’t 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."
- Pat Conroy, Beach Music

4. "I do not have any other way of saying it. I think it happens but once and only to the very young when it feels like your skin could ignite at the mere touch of another person. You get to love like that but once."
- Pat Conroy, Beach Music

5. "No story is a straight line. The geometry of a human life is too imperfect and complex, too distorted by the laughter of time and the bewildering intricacies of fate to admit the straight line into its system of laws."
- Pat Conroy, Beach Music

6. "I could bear the memory, but I could not bear the music that made the memory such a killing thing."
- Pat Conroy, Beach Music

7. "Fantasy is one of the soul's brighter porcelains."
- Pat Conroy, Beach Music

8. "We set down feasts for each other and treated our love with tongues of fire. Our bodies were fields of wonder to us."
- Pat Conroy, Beach Music

9. "Her laughter was a shiny thing, like pewter flung high in the air."
- Pat Conroy, Beach Music

10. "Men are prisoners of their genitalia and women are the keepers of the keys to paradise."
- Pat Conroy, Beach Music