A Tree, a Rock, a Cloud Quotes

“I'm not explaining this right. What happened was this. There were these beautiful feelings and loose little pleasures inside me. And this woman was something like an assembly line for my soul. I run these little pieces of myself through her and I come out complete. Now do you follow me?”
― Carson McCullers, A Tree, a Rock, a Cloud

“I meditated on love and reasoned it out. I realized what is wrong with us. Men fall in love for the first time. And what do they fall in love with? ...They fall in love with a woman. They start at the wrong end of love. They begin at the climax. Can you wonder it is so miserable? Do you know how men should love? A tree. A rock. A cloud.”
― Carson McCullers, A Tree, a Rock, a Cloud

“I had no power of how and when to remember her. You think you can put up a kind of shield. But remembering don't come to a man face forward—it corners around sideways. I was at the mercy of everything I saw and heard. Suddenly instead of me combing the countryside to find her, she begun to chase me around in my very soul. She chasing me mind you! And in my soul.”
― Carson Mccullers, A Tree, a Rock, a Cloud

“They start at the wrong end of love. They begin at the climax. Can you wonder why it is so miserable?”
― Carson McCullers, A Tree, a Rock, a Cloud

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

“Aber die Erinnerung kommt nie von vorne auf einen zu – sie kommt seitlich um die Ecke.”
― Carson McCullers, A Tree, a Rock, a Cloud

“Nothing lay around loose in me any more but was finished up by her.”
― Carson McCullers, A Tree, a Rock, a Cloud