black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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.

Carson McCullers

Related Topics

Child Heart Nody Ordinary Peach Seed Shrink Swell Thing Until

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

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.
CARSON MCCULLERS

Anymore Country Dare Friend Fright Most People Person Story Sunk Write Wrote
Can you wonder it is so miserable? Do you know how men should love? A tree. A rock. A cloud.
CARSON MCCULLERS

Cloud Men Miserable Rock Should Tree Wonder
The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
CARSON MCCULLERS

Determine Himself Love Lover Quality Solely Value
For fear is a primary source of evil. And when the question “Who am I?” recurs and is unanswered, then fear and frustration project a negative attitude.
CARSON MCCULLERS

Attitude Fear Frustration Negative Primarily Project Question Recur Source Unanswered
It was like she was cheated. Only nobody had cheated her. So there was nobody to take it out on. However, just the same she had that feeling. Cheated.
CARSON MCCULLERS

Cheat Like Nobody Out Same Feel She Take
They are the we of me.
CARSON MCCULLERS

Me They We
I meditated on love and reasoned it out. I realized what is wrong with us. Men fall in love for the first time. And what do they fall in love with? …They fall in love with a woman. They start at the wrong end of love. They begin at the climax.
CARSON MCCULLERS

Fall First Love Meditate Men Realize Reason Start With Women Wrong
There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
CARSON MCCULLERS

Beloved Come Country Different Lover
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.
CARSON MCCULLERS

Color Convolution Design Distilled Drawn Experience Intellect Mind Richer Sense Tapestry Woven
Southerners are the more lonely and spiritually estranged, I think, because we have lived so long in an artificial social system that we insisted was natural and right and just – when all along we knew it wasn’t.
CARSON MCCULLERS

Artificial Estrange Lonely Long Love More Natural Right Social Southern Spiritual System Think
The writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
CARSON MCCULLERS

Conscious Dream Dreamer Nature Write
A writer soon discovers he has no single identity but lives the lives of all the people he creates and his weathers are independent of the actual day around him.
CARSON MCCULLERS

Around Create Discover Identity Live People Single Soon Weather Independent Writer
Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It’s standing in love that matters.
CARSON MCCULLERS

Essential Fall Love Matter Stand Thing World
She stood in front of the mirror a long time, and finally decided she either looked like a sap or else she looked very beautiful. One or the other.
CARSON MCCULLERS

Beautiful Either Front Look Mirror One Other Stood Time Finally
Sometimes this fellow’s music was like little colored pieces of crystal candy, and other times it was the softest, saddest thing she had ever imagined about.
CARSON MCCULLERS

Candy Color Crystal Ever Fellow Imagine Little Music Other Piece Saddest Soft Sometimes Thing Time
You don’t know what it is to store up a lot of details and then come upon something real.
CARSON MCCULLERS

Come Detail Know Lot Real Something Store

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes