{"author":"Patricia Highsmith","author_id":"Patricia+Highsmith","total_quotes":52,"quotes":[{"text":"One situation – maybe one alone – could drive me to murder: family life, togetherness.","author":"Patricia Highsmith","tags":["crime","family","isolation","murder"],"id":22642,"author_id":"Patricia+Highsmith"},{"text":"The law was not society, it began. Society was people like himself and Owen and Brillhart, who hadn't the right to take the life of another member of society. And yet the law did. 'And yet the law is supposed to be the will of society at least. It isn't even that. Or maybe it is collectively,' he added, aware that as always he was doubling back before he come to a point, making things as complex as possible in trying to make them certain.","author":"Patricia Highsmith","tags":["law","society"],"id":26952,"author_id":"Patricia+Highsmith"},{"text":"He did look like an Italian of the worse type, though Vic didn't think he was, and it was an insult to the Italian race to assume that he was. He resembled no particular race, only an amalgamation of the worst elements of various Latin peoples. He looked as if he had spent all his life dodging blows that were probably aimed at him for good reason.","author":"Patricia Highsmith","tags":["racism"],"id":43779,"author_id":"Patricia+Highsmith"},{"text":"And everything was made of paper: sentences, pardons, pleas, bad records, demerits, proof of guilt, but never, it seemed, proof of innocence. If there were no paper, Carter felt, the entire judicial system would collapse and disappear.","author":"Patricia Highsmith","tags":["law","paper","philosophical"],"id":57324,"author_id":"Patricia+Highsmith"},{"text":"One interesting thing is that a stage is reached when nothing hurts any more. Things cannot become any worse, finally, for the one who is really depressed.","author":"Patricia Highsmith","tags":["depressed","depression","hurt","hurts","stage","worse"],"id":62659,"author_id":"Patricia+Highsmith"},{"text":"Life is a long failure of understanding, a long, mistaken shutting of the heart.","author":"Patricia Highsmith","tags":["failure","heart","life","mistaken","shutting","understanding"],"id":65015,"author_id":"Patricia+Highsmith"},{"text":"I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident.","author":"Patricia Highsmith","tags":["know","car accident","accident "],"id":84005,"author_id":"Patricia+Highsmith"},{"text":"I know you have it in you, Guy,' Anne said suddenly at the end of a silence, 'the capacity to be terribly happy.","author":"Patricia Highsmith","tags":["happiness","happy","human","patricia-highsmith","silence","strangers","strangers-on-a-train","terribly","train","truth"],"id":143052,"author_id":"Patricia+Highsmith"},{"text":"I have a definite psychosis in being with people. I cannot bear it very long.","author":"Patricia Highsmith","tags":["autism","bear","people","psychosis","solitude"],"id":143491,"author_id":"Patricia+Highsmith"},{"text":"For the hundredth time, he examined his face in the bathroom mirror, patiently touched every scratch with the styptic pencil, and repowdered them. He ministered to his face and hands objectively, as if they were not a part of himself. When his eyes met the staring eyes in the mirror, they slipped away as they must have slipped away, Guy thought, that first afternoon on the train, when he had tried to avoid Bruno’s eyes.","author":"Patricia Highsmith","tags":["duality","guilt","humanity"],"id":144408,"author_id":"Patricia+Highsmith"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":52,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}