• The curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being beloved is intolerable to many. The beloved fears and hates the lover, and with the best of reasons. For the lover is forever trying to strip bare his beloved. The lover craves any possible relation with the beloved, even if this experience can cause him only pain.

  Source: The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (1943)

  Carson McCullers
  American novelist and poet
  

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Subjects in these quotes:

1. intolerable
2. experience
3. relation
4. trying
5. craves
6. lover

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The curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being beloved is intolerable to many. The beloved fears and hates the lover, and with the best of reasons. For the lover is forever trying to strip bare his beloved. The lover craves any possible relation with the beloved, even if this experience can cause him only pain. by : Carson McCullers

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