Quotes from book
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter is the debut novel by the American author Carson McCullers; she was 23 at the time of publication. It is about a deaf man named John Singer and the people he encounters in a 1930s mill town in the US state of Georgia.

“How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?”
Source: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

“The whole world was this symphony, and there was not enough of her to listen.”
Source: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

“There was hope in him, and soon perhaps the outline of his journey would take form.”
Source: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

“When a person knows and can't
make the others understand, what does he do?”
Source: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter