"Carol" Quotes
"Carol" by Patricia Highsmith is a romantic drama about a young sales clerk and an older married woman who fall in love and embark on a road trip that challenges societal norms and their own identities in 1950s America.
fiction | 304 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
What a strange girl you are, flung from nowhere.
I hardly ever dream. I'm always afraid of what I might dream.
I'm not ashamed. It's just that I'm not accustomed to being in the presence of a goddess.
I don't know what I want. How could I know what I want if I say yes to everything?
I don't know how you bear it. How can you bear it?
I'm not sure what I want. But I want to want.
I've never looked at anyone other than you.
You have the most marvellous way of surprising me.
The difference between how you look and what you think you look like is enough to kill most men.
I'm not ashamed of anything anymore. And that includes loving you.
