{"quotes":[{"text":"It was the seventh or eighth floor, she couldn't remember which. A streetcar crawled past the front of the hotel, and people on the sidewalk moved in every direction, with legs on either side of them, and it crossed her mind to jump.","author":"Patricia Highsmith","tags":["patricia-highsmith","suicidal","suicide","the-price-of-salt"],"id":150749,"author_id":"Patricia+Highsmith"},{"text":"Do people always fall in love with things they can't have?''Always,' Carol said, smiling, too.","author":"Patricia Highsmith","tags":["carol","forbidden-love","impossible-love","in-love","lesbian","love","patricia-highsmith","starcrossed-lovers","the-price-of-salt","unrequited-love"],"id":151628,"author_id":"Patricia+Highsmith"},{"text":"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.","author":"Patricia Highsmith","tags":["carol","declaration-of-love","ending","happy-ending","patricia-highsmith","romantic","soul-mates","the-price-of-salt"],"id":206013,"author_id":"Patricia+Highsmith"},{"text":"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.","author":"Patricia Highsmith","tags":["carol","crazy","die-together","patricia-highsmith","romantic","the-price-of-salt","to-die-by-your-side","wild"],"id":210273,"author_id":"Patricia+Highsmith"},{"text":"What else mattered except being with Carol, anywhere, anyhow?","author":"Patricia Highsmith","tags":["carol","love","patricia-highsmith","romantic","the-price-of-salt"],"id":245968,"author_id":"Patricia+Highsmith"},{"text":"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.","author":"Patricia Highsmith","tags":["carol","lesbian","lgbt","love","patricia-highsmith","stereotypes","the-price-of-salt"],"id":247420,"author_id":"Patricia+Highsmith"},{"text":"She thought of people she had seen holding hands in movies, and why shouldn't she and Carol?","author":"Patricia Highsmith","tags":["carol","gay-rights","in-the-closet","lesbian","lgbt","patricia-highsmith","the-price-of-salt"],"id":266162,"author_id":"Patricia+Highsmith"},{"text":"...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-.","author":"Patricia Highsmith","tags":["carol","lesbian","lgbt","love","lucky","patricia-highsmith","romantic","the-price-of-salt"],"id":282354,"author_id":"Patricia+Highsmith"},{"text":"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.","author":"Patricia Highsmith","tags":["carol","impossible-love","lesbian","lgbt","love","patricia-highsmith","society","starcrossed-lovers","the-price-of-salt"],"id":365276,"author_id":"Patricia+Highsmith"},{"text":"Her life was a series of zigzags. At nineteen, she was anxious.","author":"Patricia Highsmith","tags":["anxious","character","life","patricia-highsmith","teenager","the-price-of-salt","young"],"id":376970,"author_id":"Patricia+Highsmith"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":12,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}