"We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known."
"People felt themselves watching him even before they knew that there was anything different about him. His eyes made a person think that he heard things that no one else had ever heard, that he knew things no one had ever guessed before. He did not seem quite human."
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Source: Carson McCullers (2010). “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter”, p.25, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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