239 Quotes by Carson McCullers

This was the summer when for a long time she had not been a member. She belonged to no club and was a member of nothing in the world. Frankie had become an unjoined person who hung around in doorways, and she was afraid.

It was almost three o’clock, the most stagnant hour in the day or night.

She spoke and he could not understand. The sounds were distinct in his ear but they had no shape or meaning. It was as though his head were the prow of a boat and the sounds were water that broke on him and then flowed past. He felt he had to look behind to find the words already said.

Now that it was over there was only her heart like a rabbit and this terrible hurt.

The whole world was this music and she could not listen hard enough.

I go all around and try to tell them. And they laugh. I can’t make them understand anything. No matter what I say I can’t seem to make them see the truth.

With her it was like there was two places – the inside room and the outside room.

Being mad is no good. Nothing we can do is any good. That’s the way it seems to me. All we can do is go around telling the truth.

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 experience to the two people involved.