Elise Robbins

“It was almost three o'clock, the most stagnant hour in the day or night.”
― Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

“Wonderful music like this was the worst hurt there could be. The whole world was this symphony, and there was not enough of her to listen.”
― Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

“The emotion is Janus-faced: we are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.”
― Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

“the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.”
― Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter