First-lines Quote by Patricia Highsmith Download Open image ““The train tore along with an angry, irregular rhythm.”” — Patricia Highsmith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare First-lines Fitness
“All the jarring, rattling and clanking, spurting and hissing of the moving train of the train dissolved in the distance into something that was… — R K Narayan Copy Share Image
“Did the rhythm of the train on the tracks somehow unravel her and make her behave out of character? Was she altered in transit,… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“The train goes slowly. From time to time it stops, so that the dead can be taken off. It stops a lot.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You can hear the train in those lines; you can feel its rocking motion.” — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“All of my life, trains had been coming and going, interrupting Ever’s daily life with their loud disregard.” — Matthew Aaron Goodman Copy Share Image
“The train could be stopped with a red flag, but by ordinary it appeared out of the devastated hills with apparitionlike suddenness and wailing… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“In the end, the train stood 2 hours motionless in the middle of nowhere. Every minute seemed like an eternity. Time felt crept by… — Makoto Shinkai Copy Share Image
“(...) the train goes fast and is going fast when it crosses a little trestle. You catch the sober, metallic, pure, late-light, unriffled glint… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
“My train was late, slowed by the usual Sunday engineering work. I got home in the early evening. I remember that I had a… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes. — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
“I feel I stand in a desert with my hands outstretched, and you are raining down upon me.” — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
One situation – maybe one alone – could drive me to murder: family life, togetherness. — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Dusk was falling quickly. It was just after 7 P.M., and the month was October.” — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
“What chance combination of shadow and sound and his own thoughts had created it?” — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“THE BOY WHO LIVED Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“In the town there were two mutes, and they were always together.” — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
“I never really wanted to die. But I followed through anyway. The pain in my heart was excruciating, and death was beautiful.” — Rae Hachton Copy Share Image
“This is the story of a man named Eddie and it starts at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun. It may seem… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“There is a delicate-looking plant native to North America called bleeding heart.” — Josh Aterovis Copy Share Image
“It was shaping up as a beautiful morning. The last thing I wanted to hear about was murder.” — Jonathan Kellerman Copy Share Image
“Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
