Carol Quotes

“I mean, if you’d like to visit me some time, you’re welcome to.”

Tomorrow she would see Carol, Therese thought, tomorrow morning at eleven. She would see her only ten blocks from here, in a little more than twelve hours.

(Chapter Five)

She saw Carol’s face, thinner now, alter with surprise, with a little smile, as Carol caught sight of her. ‘Hello’, Therese said. ‘I didn’t even know you at first.’ And Carol stood by the table a moment, looking at her, before she sat down. ‘It’s nice of you to see me.’ ‘Don’t say that.’

(Chapter Twenty-Three)

“I mean, if you’d like to visit me some time, you’re welcome to.”

Tomorrow she would see Carol, Therese thought, tomorrow morning at eleven. She would see her only ten blocks from here, in a little more than twelve hours.

(Chapter Five)

Carol - Patricia Highsmith

Cover Illustration by Jane Harris, 1991,  commissioned by Penguin Books.

If this cover reminds of a certain painting, take a look at Edward Hopper’s “Nighthawks”:

‘What a strange girl you are.’ ‘Why?’ ‘Flung out of space,’ Carol said.

(Chapter Four)

“…I’ll never regret… the years I’m giving…  They’re easy to give, when you’re in love… I’m happy to do whatever I do for you…” That was her song. That was everything she felt about Carol.

(Chapter Eleven)

Carol took her hand down from her face and sat back, and now in spite of the tiredness she looked as Therese always thought of her - the eyes that could be tender and hard at once as they tested her, the intelligent red lips strong and soft, though the upper lip trembled the least bit now.

(Chapter Nineteen)

The question was would I stop seeing you (and others like you, they said!). It was not so clearly put. There were a dozen faces that opened their mouths and spoke like the judges of doomsday - reminding me of my duties, my position, and my future. […] You say you love me however I am and when I curse. I say I love you always, the person you are and the person you will become. I would say it in a court if it would mean anything to those people or possibly change anything because those are not the words I am afraid of. 

(Chapter Twenty-One)

Carol stared at her cigarette lighter on the table. ‘That’s that’. ‘I love you’, Carol said.

(Chapter Twenty-One)