patricia-highsmith

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adfc787	Do people always fall in love with things they can't have?' 'Always,' Carol said, smiling, too.	love patricia-highsmith the-price-of-salt starcrossed-lovers forbidden-love impossible-love lesbian in-love unrequited-love	Patricia Highsmith
55039e5	Was it love or wasn't it that she felt for Carol? And how absurd it was that she didn't even know. She had heard about girls falling in love, and she knew what kind of people they were and what they looked like. Neither she nor Carol looked like that. Yet the way she felt about Carol passed all the tests for love and fitted all the descriptions.	stereotypes love patricia-highsmith the-price-of-salt lesbian lgbt	Patricia Highsmith
c7e2343	And she did not have to ask if this was right, no one had to tell her, because this could not have been more right or perfect.	sex romantic love patricia-highsmith the-price-of-salt lesbian perfect right	Patricia Highsmith
c742bd0	"I know you have it in you, Guy," Anne said suddenly at the end of a silence, "the capacity to be terribly happy."	silence happy human truth terribly strangers-on-a-train patricia-highsmith train strangers	Patricia Highsmith
eb7f682	Carol raised her hand slowly and brushed her hair back, once on either side, and Therese smiled because the gesture was Carol, and it was Carol she loved and would always love. Oh, in a different way now because she was a different person, and it was like meeting Carol all over again, but it was still Carol and no one else. It would be Carol, in a thousand cities, a thousand houses, in foreign lands where they would go together, in heaven and in hell. Therese waited. Then as she was about to go to her, Carol saw her, seemed to stare at her incredulously a moment while Therese watched the slow smile growing, before her arm lifted suddenly, her hand waved a quick, eager greeting that Therese had never seen before. Therese walked toward her.	romantic patricia-highsmith the-price-of-salt declaration-of-love happy-ending soul-mates ending	Patricia Highsmith
77cfc27	She thought of people she had seen holding hands in movies, and why shouldn't she and Carol?	in-the-closet patricia-highsmith the-price-of-salt gay-rights lesbian lgbt	Patricia Highsmith
5385907	Her life was a series of zigzags. At nineteen, she was anxious.	character life patricia-highsmith the-price-of-salt teenager young	Patricia Highsmith
c5c7332	But there were too many points at which the other self could invade the self he wanted to preserve, and there were too many forms of invasion: certain words, sounds, lights, actions his hands or feet performed, and if he did nothing at all, heard and saw nothing, the shouting of some triumphant inner voice that shocked him and cowed him.	words mind life inner-voicery strangers-on-a-train patricia-highsmith lights sounds inner-voice shocked invasion train shouting self strangers voice	Patricia Highsmith
1d9ae0f	What chance combination of shadow and sound and his own thoughts had created it?	mind thoughts nightp strangers-on-a-train patricia-highsmith trickster sound train shadow strangers creation	Patricia Highsmith
c2408ae	At any rate, Therese thought, she was happier than she ever had been before. And why worry about defining everything?	labels happy fluid-sexuality patricia-highsmith the-price-of-salt lesbian lgbt sexuality	Patricia Highsmith
813ce82	She had seen just now what she had only sensed before, that the whole world was ready to be their enemy, and suddenly what she and Carol had together seemed no longer love or anything happy but a monster between them, with each of them caught in a fist.	love patricia-highsmith the-price-of-salt starcrossed-lovers impossible-love lesbian society lgbt	Patricia Highsmith
13f965f	...It had all happened in that instant she had seen Carol standing in the middle of the floor, watching her. Then the realization that so much had happened after that meeting made her feel incredibly lucky suddenly. It was so easy for a man and woman to find each other, to find someone who would do, but for her to have found Carol-	romantic love patricia-highsmith the-price-of-salt lesbian lucky lgbt	Patricia Highsmith
171138f	I'd had a little feeling of destiny. Because, you see, what I mean about affinities is true from friendships down to even the accidental glance at someone on the street-there's always a definite reason somewhere. I think even the poets would agree with me.	fate poets relationships friendship patricia-highsmith the-price-of-salt red-string-of-fate	Patricia Highsmith
348e3ac	They roared into the Lincoln Tunnel. A wild, inexplicable excitement mounted in Therese as she stared through the windshield. She wished the tunnel might cave in and kill them both, that their bodies might be dragged out together. She felt Carol glancing at her from time to time.	romantic die-together to-die-by-your-side patricia-highsmith the-price-of-salt wild crazy	Patricia Highsmith
fef4f34	She knew what bothered her at the store...It was that the store intensified things that had always bothered her, as long as she could remember. It was the pointless actions, the meaningless chores that seemed to keep her from doing what she wanted to do, might have done-and here it was the complicated procedures with moneybags, coat checkings, and time clocks that kept people from even serving the store as efficiently as they might-the sense that everyone was incommunicado with everyone else and living on an entirely wrong plane, so that the meaning, the message, the love, or whatever it was that each life contained, never could find its expression.	work mindless patricia-highsmith the-price-of-salt retail monotony	Patricia Highsmith
1554763	What else mattered except being with Carol, anywhere, anyhow?	romantic love patricia-highsmith the-price-of-salt	Patricia Highsmith
3a7f9c1	She hated cleaning up after making something.	cleaning-up patricia-highsmith the-price-of-salt	Patricia Highsmith
9b9f62a	I'm not melancholic,' she protested, but the thin ice was under her feet again, the uncertainties. or was it that she always wanted a little more than she had, no matter how much she had?	unsatisfied patricia-highsmith the-price-of-salt	Patricia Highsmith
7005daf	She probably had all the time in the world, Therese thought, probably did nothing all day but what she felt like doing.	patricia-highsmith the-price-of-salt idle leisure	Patricia Highsmith

Do people always fall in love with things they can't have?' 'Always,' Carol said, smiling, too.

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Was it love or wasn't it that she felt for Carol? And how absurd it was that she didn't even know. She had heard about girls falling in love, and she knew what kind of people they were and what they looked like. Neither she nor Carol looked like that. Yet the way she felt about Carol passed all the tests for love and fitted all the descriptions.

stereotypes love patricia-highsmith the-price-of-salt lesbian lgbt

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c7e2343

And she did not have to ask if this was right, no one had to tell her, because this could not have been more right or perfect.

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c742bd0

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

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Carol raised her hand slowly and brushed her hair back, once on either side, and Therese smiled because the gesture was Carol, and it was Carol she loved and would always love. Oh, in a different way now because she was a different person, and it was like meeting Carol all over again, but it was still Carol and no one else. It would be Carol, in a thousand cities, a thousand houses, in foreign lands where they would go together, in heaven and in hell. Therese waited. Then as she was about to go to her, Carol saw her, seemed to stare at her incredulously a moment while Therese watched the slow smile growing, before her arm lifted suddenly, her hand waved a quick, eager greeting that Therese had never seen before. Therese walked toward her.

romantic patricia-highsmith the-price-of-salt declaration-of-love happy-ending soul-mates ending

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77cfc27

She thought of people she had seen holding hands in movies, and why shouldn't she and Carol?

in-the-closet patricia-highsmith the-price-of-salt gay-rights lesbian lgbt

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5385907

Her life was a series of zigzags. At nineteen, she was anxious.

character life patricia-highsmith the-price-of-salt teenager young

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c5c7332

But there were too many points at which the other self could invade the self he wanted to preserve, and there were too many forms of invasion: certain words, sounds, lights, actions his hands or feet performed, and if he did nothing at all, heard and saw nothing, the shouting of some triumphant inner voice that shocked him and cowed him.

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1d9ae0f

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

mind thoughts nightp strangers-on-a-train patricia-highsmith trickster sound train shadow strangers creation

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c2408ae

At any rate, Therese thought, she was happier than she ever had been before. And why worry about defining everything?

labels happy fluid-sexuality patricia-highsmith the-price-of-salt lesbian lgbt sexuality

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813ce82

She had seen just now what she had only sensed before, that the whole world was ready to be their enemy, and suddenly what she and Carol had together seemed no longer love or anything happy but a monster between them, with each of them caught in a fist.

love patricia-highsmith the-price-of-salt starcrossed-lovers impossible-love lesbian society lgbt

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13f965f

...It had all happened in that instant she had seen Carol standing in the middle of the floor, watching her. Then the realization that so much had happened after that meeting made her feel incredibly lucky suddenly. It was so easy for a man and woman to find each other, to find someone who would do, but for her to have found Carol-

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171138f

I'd had a little feeling of destiny. Because, you see, what I mean about affinities is true from friendships down to even the accidental glance at someone on the street-there's always a definite reason somewhere. I think even the poets would agree with me.

fate poets relationships friendship patricia-highsmith the-price-of-salt red-string-of-fate

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348e3ac

They roared into the Lincoln Tunnel. A wild, inexplicable excitement mounted in Therese as she stared through the windshield. She wished the tunnel might cave in and kill them both, that their bodies might be dragged out together. She felt Carol glancing at her from time to time.

romantic die-together to-die-by-your-side patricia-highsmith the-price-of-salt wild crazy

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fef4f34

She knew what bothered her at the store...It was that the store intensified things that had always bothered her, as long as she could remember. It was the pointless actions, the meaningless chores that seemed to keep her from doing what she wanted to do, might have done-and here it was the complicated procedures with moneybags, coat checkings, and time clocks that kept people from even serving the store as efficiently as they might-the sense that everyone was incommunicado with everyone else and living on an entirely wrong plane, so that the meaning, the message, the love, or whatever it was that each life contained, never could find its expression.

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1554763

What else mattered except being with Carol, anywhere, anyhow?

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3a7f9c1

She hated cleaning up after making something.

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9b9f62a

I'm not melancholic,' she protested, but the thin ice was under her feet again, the uncertainties. or was it that she always wanted a little more than she had, no matter how much she had?

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7005daf

She probably had all the time in the world, Therese thought, probably did nothing all day but what she felt like doing.

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