First-lines Quote by Carson McCullers Download Open image ““In the town there were two mutes, and they were always together.”” — Carson McCullers ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare First-lines Opening-lines
“They sat in silence for a full minute, the air between them growing heavy, as if they both wanted to speak, and yet had… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“And why did everyone persist in thinking the mute was exactly as they wanted him to be--when most likely it was all a very… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
“I thought he was a quiet guy. Then I found out he is a mute, and then I knew he was a quiet guy.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“These days it seemed like the words between them were there only to outline the silences.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Each of them warmed to the sound of the other's voice. They lay in the dark together, in distant cities, each of them thinking,… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
“They did not look at each other. They did not say a word to each other... They knew that talk is meaningless when a… — Jack Schaefer Copy Share Image
“There's a frightful muteness that dwells at the center of all unspeakable things, and I had found my way into it.” — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“It was odd and intimate, their hands connected, their heads in different rooms. They could talk. They could hold hands. But they couldn't see… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
“They both fell silent. For a while the only sound they could hear was the noise of books resting on shelves, which wasn’t really… — Gideon Defoe 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
“THE BOY WHO LIVED Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“I never really wanted to die. But I followed through anyway. The pain in my heart was excruciating, and death was beautiful.” — Rae Hachton Copy Share Image
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“There is a delicate-looking plant native to North America called bleeding heart.” — Josh Aterovis Copy Share Image
“It was shaping up as a beautiful morning. The last thing I wanted to hear about was murder.” — Jonathan Kellerman Copy Share Image
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