New year's eve Quotes by Patricia Highsmith

“Thinking no more about it, he stepped off into that cool space, that fast descent to her, with nothing in his mind but a…

— Patricia Highsmith

I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.

— Patricia Highsmith

“I feel I stand in a desert with my hands outstretched, and you are raining down upon me.”

— Patricia Highsmith

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

— Patricia Highsmith

“He felt he was about to experience again some ancient, delicious childhood moment that the steam calliope's sour hollowness, the stitching hurdy-gurdy accompaniment, and…

— Patricia Highsmith

“It was a kind of arrogance, perhaps, to believe so in one's destiny. But, on the other hand, who could be more genuinely humble…

— Patricia Highsmith

I should love to do a novel, about one abnormal character seeing present-day life, very ordinary life, yet arresting through it, abnormality, until at…

— Patricia Highsmith

I don't set the alarm to get up. I get up when I feel like it.

— Patricia Highsmith

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

— Patricia Highsmith

“What chance combination of shadow and sound and his own thoughts had created it?”

— Patricia Highsmith

“Happiness was like a green vine spreading through her, stretching fine tendrils, bearing flowers through her flesh. She had a vision of a pale-white…

— Patricia Highsmith

“That's exactly where you're wrong! Any kind of person can murder. Purely circumstances and not a thing to do with temperament! People get so…

— Patricia Highsmith