"The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" Quotes
A deaf-mute man becomes the confidant for a group of lonely individuals in a small Southern town.
fiction | 352 pages | Published in 2012
Quotes
The problem with you is that you want to hear things that are not said.
They got no real reason to complain, but they just like to hear themselves talk.
When a person is lucky enough to live inside a story, to live inside an imaginary world, the pains of this world are not so difficult to bear.
People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.
He had never thought of himself as lonely. The word was too ugly. And his own world was too beautiful.
They are the only ones who can see inside of me. Inside of me where nothing is clear.
The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.
A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
I don't understand it, but you know how people are.
I want to wait for her. I want to be there if she needs me.
