Annie

“He was thinking that in nearly every person there was some special physical part kept always guarded.”
― Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

“He's a collector. That's the great dead thing in him.”
― John Fowles, The Collector

“But now no music was in her mind. That was a funny thing. It was like she was shut out from the inside room. Sometimes a quick little tune would come and go - but she never went into the inside room with music like she used to do. It was like she was too tense. Or maybe because it was like the store took all her energy and time . . . She wanted to stay in the inside room but she didn't know how. It was like the inside room was locked somewhere away from her. A very hard thing to understand.”
― Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

“He had first come into the house with her whom he loved. And Daisy was dressed in her bridal gown and wore a white lace veil. Her skin was a beautiful colour of dark honey and her laughter was sweet. At night he had shut himself in the bright room to study alone. He had tried to cogitate and to discipline himself to study. But with Daisy near him there was a strong desire in him that would not go away with study.”
― Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter