“ Carol raised her hand slowly and brushed her hair back, once on either side, and Therese smiled because the gesture was Carol, and it was Carol she loved and would always love. Oh, in a different way… Patricia Highsmith
“ But there were too many points at which the other self could invade the self he wanted to preserve, and there were too many forms of invasion: certain words, sounds, lights, actions his hands or feet… Patricia Highsmith
“ Do people always fall in love with things they can't have?''Always,' Carol said, smiling, too. Patricia Highsmith
“ She probably had all the time in the world, Therese thought, probably did nothing all day but what she felt like doing. Patricia Highsmith
“ What chance combination of shadow and sound and his own thoughts had created it? Patricia Highsmith
“ She knew what bothered her at the store...It was that the store intensified things that had always bothered her, as long as she could remember. It was the pointless actions, the meaningless chores tha… Patricia Highsmith
“ I know you have it in you, Guy, Anne said suddenly at the end of a silence, the capacity to be terribly happy. Patricia Highsmith
“ At any rate, Therese thought, she was happier than she ever had been before. And why worry about defining everything? Patricia Highsmith
“ They roared into the Lincoln Tunnel. A wild, inexplicable excitement mounted in Therese as she stared through the windshield. She wished the tunnel might cave in and kill them both, that their bodies… Patricia Highsmith
