Efemia

“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

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

“Today we are not put up on the platforms and sold at the courthouse square. But we are forced to sell our strength, our time, our souls during almost every hour that we live. We have been freed from one kind of slavery only to be delivered into another. Is this freedom?”
― Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter