Edna

“You don't know what it is to store up a lot of details and then come upon something real.”
― Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

“Because of the insolence of all the white race he was afraid to lose his dignity in friendliness.”
― Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

“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.”
― Carson McCullers

“The world that jibes your tenderness
Jails your lust.”
― Carson McCullers