Quotes from Patricia Highsmith

He liked the fact that Venice had no cars. It made the city human. The streets were like veins, he thought, and the people were the blood, circulating everywhere.

Happiness was like a green vine spreading through her, stretching fine tendrils, bearing flowers through her flesh.

My angel," Carold said. "Flung out of space.

I know you have it in you, Guy," Anne said suddenly at the end of a silence, "the capacity to be terribly happy.

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

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

He loved possessions, not masses of them, but a select few that he did not part with. They gave a man self-respect. Not ostentation but quality, and the love that cherished the quality. Possessions reminded him that he existed, and made him enjoy his existence. It was as simple as that. And wasn't that worth something? He existed. Not many people in the world knew how to, even if they had the money. It really didn't take money, masses of money, it took a certain security.

Do you like her' ''Of course!' What a question! Like asking her if she believe in God.

The justice I have received, I shall give back.

But when they kissed goodnight in bed, Therese felt their sudden release, that leap of response in both of them, as if their bodies were of some materials which put together inevitably created desire.