I want – I want – I want – was all that she could think about – but just what this real want was she did not know.
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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Don’t you loathe it when doctors use the word ‘we’ when it applies only and solely to yourself?
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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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This music was her-the real plain her…This music did not take a long time or a short time. It did not have anything to do with time going by at all. She sat with her arms around her legs, biting her salty knee very hard.
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The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
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I once wrote a story about a writer who could not write anymore, and my friend Tennessee Williams said, ‘How could you dare write that story, it’s the most frightening work I have ever read.’ I was pretty well sunk while I was writing it.
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When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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Love is affirmation; it motivates the yes responses and the sense of wider communication. Love casts out fear, and in the security of this togetherness we find contentment, courage.
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Love is the bridge that leads from the I sense to the We, and there is a paradox about personal love.
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The bewildered soul can answer only: “Since I do not understand ‘Who I am,’ I only know what I am not.” The corollary of this emotional incertitude is snobbism, intolerance and racial hate.
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I got to wear blinders all the time so I won’t think sideways or in the past.
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Writing, for me, is a search for God.
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The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.
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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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But no value has been put on human life; it is given to us free and taken without being paid for. What is it worth?
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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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