Patricia Highsmith. The talented Mr. Ripley (№ 153259)

No, they were not buddies. They barely knew each other. The thought struck Tom like a horrible truth, true for all times, faithful to all the people that knew in the past and who knows in the future. All of them are some no so stood or will stand in front of him, he time and time again and will make sure that never knew and never will know them, and worst of all - he is always for some time be fooled into thinking that knows them, and if between them there is complete harmony and similarity.