255 Quotes by Patricia Highsmith

She had the kind of face that must be seen in action to be attractive.

Therese had read about that special pleasure people got from the fact that someone they loved was attractive in the eyes of other people, too. She simply didn’t have it.

She was conscious of the moments passing like irrevocable time, irrevocable happiness, for in these last seconds she might turn and see the face she would never see again.

I’ve thought of a wonderful way to start a forest fire,′ Tom said musingly as they were having coffee.

She envied him. She envied him his faith there would always be a place, a home, a job, someone else for him. She envied him that attitude.

Look at it, like a rat,′ she said. ‘A portrait of Harge.

Something always turned up. That was Tom’s philosophy.

When she stood up, the woman was looking at her with the calm gray eyes that Therese could neither quite face nor look away from.

I have no television – I hate it.