The music left only this bad hurt in her, and a blankness. She could not remember any of the symphony, not even the last few notes. She tried to remember, but no sound at all came to her. Now that it was over there was only her heart like a rabbit and this terrible hurt.
CARSON MCCULLERSBut the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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Next to music beer was best.
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We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
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Doctors, by God; washing their hands, looking out windows, fiddling with dreadful things while you are stretched out on a table or half undressed on a chair.
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I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.
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His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years.
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I run these little pieces of myself through her and I come out complete. Now do you follow me?
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The heart of a hurt child can shrink so that forever afterward it is hard and pitted as the seed of a peach. Or again, the heart of such a child may fester and swell until it is a misery to carry within the body, easily chafed and hurt by the most ordinary things.
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The world is certainty a sudden place.
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Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It’s standing in love that matters.
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The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire!
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All we can do is go around telling the truth.
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Writing, for me, is a search for God.
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It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see.
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Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.
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