Edna > Edna's Quotes

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“I think it is safe to say that while the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Christ-haunted.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“The Catholic novelist in the South will see many distorted images of Christ, but he will certainly feel that a distorted image of Christ is better than no image at all. I think he will feel a good deal more kinship with backwoods prophets and shouting fundamentalists than he will with those politer elements for whom the supernatural is an embarrassment and for whom religion has become a department of sociology or culture or personality development.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“Maycomb was a tired old town, even in 1932 when I first knew it. Somehow, it was hotter then. Men's stiff collars wilted by nine in the morning. Ladies bathed before noon after their three o'clock naps. And by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frosting from sweating and sweet talcum. The day was twenty-four hours long, but it seemed longer. There's no hurry, for there's nowhere to go and nothing to buy...and no money to buy it with.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“The mutual distrust between the men who were just awakened and those who were ending a long night gave everyone a feeling of estrangement.”
― Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

“He nearly always put his hand on his friend's arm and looked for a second into his face before leaving him.”
― Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

“while time, the endless idiot, runs screaming around the world”
― Carson McCullers

“Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.”
― Carson McCullers

“I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.”
― Carson McCullers

“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

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

“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 writer is by nature a dreamer-a conscious dreamer.”
― Carson McCullers

“But remembering don’t come to a man face forward—it corners around sideways.”
― Carson McCullers, A Tree, a Rock, a Cloud