Carol Patricia Highsmith Quotes

#1. And she did not have to ask if this was right, no one had to tell her, because this could not have been more right or perfect.

Patricia Highsmith

#2. A dreary censorship, and self-censorship, has been imposed on books by the centralization of the book industry.

Erica Jong

#3. Usually at the core of fiction that has some element of the absurd there tends to be an examination of some societal ills that we should talk about more than we do. And it's funny, of course, so we have that release valve with absurdism. It offers us a safe way to explore difficult subject matter.

Laurie Foos

#4. She had seen just now what she had only sensed before, that the whole world was ready to be their enemy, and suddenly what she and Carol had together seemed no longer love or anything happy but a monster between them, with each of them caught in a fist.

Patricia Highsmith

#5. What else mattered except being with Carol, anywhere, anyhow?

Patricia Highsmith

#6. It always gets late with you. - Is that a compliment?

Patricia Highsmith

#7. Be consistent and live what you believe

Caroline Myss

#8. You are either getting better or getting worse, but you are never staying the same.

Drew Brees

#9. It would be Carol, in a thousand cities, a thousand houses, in foreign lands where they would go together, in heaven and in hell.

Patricia Highsmith

#10. How indifferent he was to Carol after all, Therese thought. She felt he didn't see her, as he sometimes hadn't seen figures in rock or cloud formations when she had tried to point them out to him.

Patricia Highsmith

#11. Finally, Carol said in a tone of hopelessness, "Darling, can I ask you to forgive me?"
The tone hurt Therese more than the question. "I love you, Carol."
"But do you see what it means?

Patricia Highsmith

#12. The slogan of the American Civil Rights Movement was "We shall overcome!" Donald Trump's new campaign slogan is "We shall overcomb!"

Michael R. Burch

#13. Carol looked at her. "How do you become a poet?"
"By feeling things - too much, I suppose," Therese answered conscientiously.

Patricia Highsmith

#14. She thought of people she had seen holding hands in movies, and why shouldn't she and Carol?

Patricia Highsmith

#15. Do people always fall in love with things they can't have?'
'Always,' Carol said, smiling, too.

Patricia Highsmith

#16. What a strange girl you are." "Why?" "Flung out of space," Carol said.

Patricia Highsmith

#17. Carol looked at her, as if really seeing her for the first time that evening, and under her eyes that went from her face to her hands in her lap, Therese felt like a puppy Carol had bought at a roadside kennel, that Carol had just remembered was riding beside her.

Patricia Highsmith

#18. Don't you know I love you?' Carol said.

Patricia Highsmith

#19. 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 might be dragged out together. She felt Carol glancing at her from time to time.

Patricia Highsmith

#20. Carol was like a secret spreading through her.

Highsmith, Patricia

#21. Nothing can hinder us if we make the right choice

Sunday Adelaja

#22. When he fell down the stairs, he told people he'd had a stroke. He was just pissed out of his skull. I love Dirk, he is such a drama queen.

Ava Gardner

#23. You have the exact qualities God knew your kids would need in a mother. Each day, hold up your willingness and ask God to make you the best version of you that you can possibly be.

Lysa TerKeurst

#24. One should be good to oneself. Especially when one is alone.

Peter Hoeg

#25. Look at it, like a rat,' she said. 'A portrait of Harge.

Patricia Highsmith