Pat Conroy

I read this passage a couple days ago in my current book.  Pat Conroy knows my part of the South better than most and reading this makes me remember why my home is so beautiful.

"I loved these salt rivers more than I loved the sea; I loved the movement of the tides more than
I loved the fury of the surf.  Something in me was congruent with this land, something affirmed when I witnessed the startled, piping rush of shrimp or the flash of starlight on the scales of mullet.  I could feel myself relax and change whenever I returned to the lowcountry and saw the vast green expanses of the marsh, feminine as lace, delicate as calligraphy.  The lowcountry had its own special ache and sting."

-Pat Conroy, Chapter 6, The Lords of Discipline