Finally, Carol said in a tone of...

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

The Price of Salt

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I do not understand people who like to make noise; consequently I fear them, and since I fear them, I hate them.

- Patricia Highsmith

I have a definite psychosis in being with people. I cannot bear it very long.

- Patricia Highsmith

one blow in anger [would] kill, probably, a child from aged two to eight. Those over eight would take two blows to kill.

- Patricia Highsmith

Outside, under the marquee of the hotel, he stood a moment as he did each night beneath the marquee of the Hotel Hyperion, while he decided what direction to take, what to do. And suddenly, realizing it was not the Hotel Hyperion, that the circumstances were quite different, he felt loneliness spring up like a dark forest all around him. The odd thing was, he felt no impulse to hurry after her, to find her somehow. What would he have to offer her except the history of weakness, loneliness, and inadequacy, the decline and fall of himself? He himself was the core of the loneliness around him, and its core was inadequacy. He was inadequate even in love.

- Patricia Highsmith

I read, write and create. I must lose myself in work, so that there is no space for the other/anything else.

- Patricia Highsmith

Fantasy, an unflagging optimism is necessary for a writer at all stages of this rough game. A kind of madness is therefore necessary, when there is every logical reason for a state of depression and discouragement. Perhaps the fact that I can react with utter gloom to this is what keeps me from being psychotic and keeps me merely neurotic. I am doing quite a good day's work today. But I am also aware of the madness that actually sustains me, and I am not made more comfortable or happy by it.

- Patricia Highsmith

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