239 Quotes by Carson McCullers

They are the we of me.

A person can't pick up they children and just squeeze them to which-a-way they wants them to be.

Doctor Copeland belt old evil anger in him. The words rose inchoately to his throat and he could not speak them. They would listen to the old man. Yet to word the reason they will not attend.

It was as though his son cheated him by depriving him of his beloved presence, the sweet and treacherous thief had plundered his heart. If Johnny had died in any other way, cancer or leukaemia… he could have grieved with a clear heart, cried also. But suicide seemed a deliberate act of spite which the Judge resented.

We are homesick most for the places we have never known.

I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.

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. 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. The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.

An army post in peacetime is a dull place. Things happen, but then they happen over and over again.

Leonora Penderton feared neither man, beast, nor the devil; God she had never known.