“[Patricia Highsmith] was overwhelmed by sensory stimulation - there were too many people and too much noise and she just could not handle the supermarket. She continually jumped, afraid that someon...”

“After reading Burgum, [Patricia Highsmith] wrote in her cahier that, like Kafka, she felt she was a pessimist, unable to formulate a system in which an individual could believe in God, government o...”

“[Patricia Highsmith] was an extremely unbalanced person, extremely hostile and misanthropic and totally incapable of any kind of relationship, not just intimate ones. I felt sorry for her, because ...”

“If [Patricia Highsmith] saw an acquaintance walking down the sidewalk she would deliberately cross over so as to avoid them. When she came in contact with people, she realised she split herself int...”

“Throughout her life, Highsmith looked for women whom she could worship. Sex was far from the most important factor in any relationship; rather, it was this near-divine quality for which she yearned.”

“The artistic life is a long and lovely suicide precisely because it involves the negation of self; as Highsmith imagined herself as her characters, so Ripley takes on the personae of others and in ...”

“[Patricia Highsmith] was a figure of contradictions: a lesbian who didn't particularly like women; a writer of the most insightful psychological novels who, at times, appeared bored by people; a mi...”

“Lucien studied the wine in his goblet. "You dont hold on to power by being everyones friend. And among the faeries, lesser and High Fae alike, a firm hand is needed. Were too powerful, and too bore...”

“The world is drowning in weirdness and lies......and here we are, so used to it that we're actually bored!”

“People are... Full of contradictions. They're lonely. And then they're not. They're missed. And then they're not.”

“Society had more and more rules, and laws that contradicted the rules, and new rules that contradicted the laws. People felt too frightened to take even a step outside the invisible regulations tha...”

“A woman lives a life of contradictions wrapped inside paradoxes wrapped inside a big candy wrapper.”

“It is better to be gentle than rude.”

“We ought to love and be gentle with one another.”

“i can't hold onto love.i'm not gentle enough.i always end upcrushing the thingin between my fingertips.”