The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Carson McCullers
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Next to music, beer was best.”
“Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.”
“How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?”
“the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.”
“The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.”
“She wished there was some place where she could go to hum it out loud. Some kind of music was too private to sing in a house cram fall of people. It was funny, too, how lonesome a person could be in a crowded house.”
“In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone.”
“I want - I want - I want - was all that she could think about - but just what this real want was she did not know.”
“I´m a stranger in a strange land.”
“When a person knows and can't make the others understand, what does he do?”
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