Book Quote 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