01c. 1936 ADThe Captain swallowed his capsules and lay down in the dark with pleasant anticipation. This quantity of the drug gave him a unique and voluptuous sensation; it was as though a great dark bird alighted on his chest, looked at him once with fierce, golden eyes, and stealthily enfolded him in his dark wings.Carson McCullers / quote ↗
02c. 1936 ADLeonora Penderton feared neither man, beast, nor the devil; God she had never known.Carson McCullers / quote ↗
04c. 1936 ADIt wasn't like she was lonely and in fact – she had understood it all in every way except with her brain. Now she knew that she knew.Carson McCullers / quote ↗
05c. 1936 ADThe job wouldn't be just put the summer, but for a long time, as long as she could see ahead. Once they were used to the money coming in it would be impossible to do without again.Carson McCullers / quote ↗
06c. 1936 ADThe closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.Carson McCullers / quote ↗
07c. 1936 ADThere are all these people here I don't know by sight or by name. And we pass alongside each other and don't have any connection. And they don't know me and I don't know them. And now I'm leaving town and there are all these people I will never know.Carson McCullers / quote ↗
08c. 1936 ADIt was a year when Frankie thought about the world. And she did not see it as a round school globe with the countries neat and different-coloured. She thought of the world as huge and cracked and loose and turning a thousand miles an hour.Carson McCullers / quote ↗
09c. 1936 ADThe mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.Carson McCullers / quote ↗
