The justice I have received, I shall give back.

Patricia Highsmith

Tags: justice revenge



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Dusk was falling quickly. It was just after 7 P.M., and the month was October.

Patricia Highsmith


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One situation – maybe one alone – could drive me to murder: family life, togetherness.

Patricia Highsmith

Tags: family murder isolation crime



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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

Tags: inspirational murder children humour crime



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There was something demoniacal and insuperable about typographical errors, as if they were part of the natural evil that permeated man's existence, as if they had a life of their own and were determined to manifest themselves no matter what, as surely as weeds in the best-tended gardens.

Patricia Highsmith


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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


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Our actions and responsibilities are our own; what later returns to either haunt or applaud us is neither possible to predict nor always completely understandable.

Patricia Highsmith


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Thinking no more about it, he stepped off into that cool space, that fast descent to her, with nothing in his mind but a memory of a curve of her shoulder, naked, as he had never seen it.

Patricia Highsmith

Tags: delusions this-sweet-sickness



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-¿Hay algo más aburrido que la historia del pasado? -dijo Therese sonriendo.
-Quizá un futuro sin historia.

Patricia Highsmith


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How was it possible to be afraid and in love... The two things did not go together. How was it possible to be afraid, when the two of them grew stronger together every day? And every night. Every night was different, and every morning. Together they possessed a miracle.

Patricia Highsmith

Tags: love



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