"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 ..."
- Patricia Highsmith
"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 l..."
"She thought of people she had seen holding hands in movies, and why shouldn't she and Carol?"
"Do people always fall in love with things they can't have?''Always,' Carol said, smiling, too."