the-price-of-salt

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adfc787	Do people always fall in love with things they can't have?' 'Always,' Carol said, smiling, too.	forbidden-love impossible-love in-love lesbian love patricia-highsmith starcrossed-lovers the-price-of-salt 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.	lesbian lgbt love patricia-highsmith stereotypes the-price-of-salt	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.	lesbian love patricia-highsmith perfect right romantic sex the-price-of-salt	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.	declaration-of-love ending happy-ending patricia-highsmith romantic soul-mates the-price-of-salt	Patricia Highsmith
77cfc27	She thought of people she had seen holding hands in movies, and why shouldn't she and Carol?	gay-rights in-the-closet lesbian lgbt patricia-highsmith the-price-of-salt	Patricia Highsmith
b9ceb15	What a strange girl you are.	love the-price-of-salt	Patricia Highsmith
5385907	Her life was a series of zigzags. At nineteen, she was anxious.	character life patricia-highsmith teenager the-price-of-salt young	Patricia Highsmith
c2408ae	At any rate, Therese thought, she was happier than she ever had been before. And why worry about defining everything?	fluid-sexuality happy labels lesbian lgbt patricia-highsmith sexuality the-price-of-salt	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.	impossible-love lesbian lgbt love patricia-highsmith society starcrossed-lovers the-price-of-salt	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-	lesbian lgbt love lucky patricia-highsmith romantic the-price-of-salt	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 friendship patricia-highsmith poets red-string-of-fate relationships the-price-of-salt	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.	crazy die-together patricia-highsmith romantic the-price-of-salt to-die-by-your-side wild	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.	mindless monotony patricia-highsmith retail the-price-of-salt work	Patricia Highsmith
1554763	What else mattered except being with Carol, anywhere, anyhow?	love patricia-highsmith romantic 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?	patricia-highsmith the-price-of-salt unsatisfied	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.	idle leisure patricia-highsmith the-price-of-salt	Patricia Highsmith

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

forbidden-love impossible-love in-love lesbian love patricia-highsmith starcrossed-lovers the-price-of-salt 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.

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

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.

lesbian love patricia-highsmith perfect right romantic sex the-price-of-salt

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.

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

Patricia Highsmith

77cfc27

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

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

Patricia Highsmith

b9ceb15

What a strange girl you are.

love the-price-of-salt

Patricia Highsmith

5385907

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

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

Patricia Highsmith

c2408ae

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

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

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.

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

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-

lesbian lgbt love lucky patricia-highsmith romantic the-price-of-salt

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

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.

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

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.

mindless monotony patricia-highsmith retail the-price-of-salt work

Patricia Highsmith

1554763

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

love patricia-highsmith romantic 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?

patricia-highsmith the-price-of-salt unsatisfied

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.

idle leisure patricia-highsmith the-price-of-salt

Patricia Highsmith