Quotes by Carson McCullers

“The old bitterness came up in him and he did not have time to cogitate and push it down.”

“He waited for the black, terrible anger as though for some beast out of the night. But it did not come to him. His bowels seemed weighted with lead, and he walked slowly and lingered against fences...”

“... and we are not alone in this slavery. there are millions of others throughout the world, of all colors and races and creeds. this we must remember. there are many of our people who hate the poo...”

“It was the year Frankie thought about the world. And she did not see it as a round school globe, with the countries neat and different-colored. She thought of the world as huge and cracked and loos...”

“Maybe that was the trouble. She got the first and biggest share of everything first whack at the new clothes and the biggest part of any special treat. Hazel never had to grab for anything and she...”

“There is a deeper reason why the caf was so precious to this town. And this deeper reason has to do with a certain pride that had not hitherto been known in these parts. To understand this new prid...”

“He was like a man who had served a term in prison or had been to Harvard College or had left for a long time with foreigners in South America. He was like a person who had been somewhere that other...”

“For the liquor of Miss Amelia has a special quality of its own. It is clean and sharp on the tongue, but once down a man it glows inside him for a long time afterward. And that is not all. It is kn...”

“The Captain swallowed his capsules and lay down in the dark with pleasant anticipation. This quantity of the drug gave him a unique and voluptuous sensation; it was as though a great dark bird alig...”

“Leonora Penderton feared neither man, beast, nor the devil; God she had never known.”

“We are homesick most for the places we have never known.”

“It wasn't like she was lonely and in fact she had understood it all in every way except with her brain. Now she knew that she knew.”

“The job wouldn't be just put the summer, but for a long time, as long as she could see ahead. Once they were used to the money coming in it would be impossible to do without again.”

“The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.”

“The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.”

“There are all these people here I don't know by sight or by name. And we pass alongside each other and don't have any connection. And they don't know me and I don't know them. And now I'm leaving t...”

“First of all, love is a joint experience between two persons but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved. There are the love...”

“It was a year when Frankie thought about the world. And she did not see it as a round school globe with the countries neat and different-coloured. She thought of the world as huge and cracked and ...”

“That was all he wanted for himself – to give to her. Biff's mouth hardened. He had done nothing wrong but in him he felt a strange guilt. Why? The dark guilt in all men, unreckoned and without a name.”

“There was another thing bigger than the tiredness – and this was the strong crew purpose.”