Mick wants a violin. She tries to make one. It’s pretty hard to make a violin. It doesn’t work out. She reflects:
Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.
-Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, p. 51
“You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me, yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life.” – John 5:39-40
Portia describes her father:
I feel sorrier for him than anybody I knows. I expect he done read more books than any white man in this town. He done read more books and he done worried about more things. He full of books and worrying. He done lost God and turned his back to religion. All his trouble come down to just that.
– Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, p. 49
“My son, beware of anything beyond these. Of making many books there is no end, and much study is a weariness of the flesh. The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.” – Ecclesiastes 12:12-13
We’ve added this book to our ‘recommended reading’ page.
