Efemia

“Whatever is going to kill me will kill me and it will be mine.”
― Gabby Bess, Alone with Other People

“Paige had a sadness that was so desperate that it could not yet turn into anger.”
― Gabby Bess, Alone with Other People

“Always he wanted to set her up to something, to give to her. And not only a sundae or some sweet to eat – but something real. That was all he wanted for himself – to give to her. Biff’s mouth hardened. He had done nothing wrong but in him he felt a strange guilt. Why? The dark guilt in all men, unreckoned and without a name.”
― Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

“The eyes of his friend were moist and dark, and in them he saw the little rectangled pictures of himself that he had watched a thousand times.”
― Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter