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