239 Quotes by Carson McCullers

There was none of the quiet insolence about this man.

Because in some men it is in them to give up everything personal at some time, before it ferments and poisons – throw it to some human being or some human idea. They have to.

She had always kept things to herself. That was one sure truth.

It was like that kid had been born knowing how to read. He was only in the second grade but he loved to read stories by himself – and he never asked anybody else to read to him.

He could not understand the wild quiver of his heart, nor the following sense of recklessness and grace that lingered after she was gone.