Quotes by : Patricia Highsmith

I'd had a little feeling of destiny. Because, you see, what I mean about affinities is true from friendships....

I know you have it in you, Guy," Anne said suddenly at the end of a silence, "the capacity to be terribly....

I have been sadder than any man could be: for nothing in the world was made for me.

I like to drink when I travel. It enhances things, don’t you think?

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

My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.

The justice I have received, I shall give back.

Once a person has become detached from his possessions, his customary duties, his moments of solitude,....

She had seen just now what she had only sensed before, that the whole world was ready to be their enemy,....

Was it love or wasn't it that she felt for Carol? And how absurd it was that she didn't even know. She....