“Love is a joint experience between two persons—but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
“He was like a man who had served a term in prison or had been to Harvard College or had left for… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
“Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
She stood in front of the mirror a long time, and finally decided she either looked like a sap or else she… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
“It happened that green and crazy summer when Frankie was twelve years old. This was the summer when for a long time… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
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“It was a small of her back and her face that got so tired. Their (her retail employer's) mono was supposed to… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
This was her, Mick Kelly, walking in the daytime and by herself at night. In the hot sun and in the dark… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person. All people belong to a… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
“You think out everything in your brain. While us rather talk from something in our hearts that has been there for a… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
“The job wouldn't be just put the summer, but for a long time, as long as she could see ahead. Once they… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
“Then at last the opening music came again, with all the different instruments bunched together for each note like a hard, tight… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
“He was like a man who had served a term in prison or had been to Harvard College or had lived for… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
“Because things accumulate around your name," said Berenice. "You have a name and one thing after another happens to you, and you behave in… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
It was like she was cheated. Only nobody had cheated her. So there was nobody to take it out on. However, just the same… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
“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… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
“He was like a man who had served a term in prison or had been to Harvard College or had left for a long… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister. — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
“Son, do you know how love should be begun?" The boy sat small and listening and still. Slowly he shook his head. The old… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
The dimensions of a work of art are seldom realized by the author until the work is accomplished. It is like a flowering dream.… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
Now hoppin'-john was F. Jasmine's very favorite food. She had always warned them to wave a plate of rice and peas before her nose… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book. — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
“Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them . .… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
