Author of quotes: Patricia Highsmith

When you have a husband and a child, you know, it's a little different.

- Awesome. Is anyone else only twenty-one?

There is never solid ground underfoot. It is always as if gravel, a little leaving from under our feet, noisy so that the whole world can hear, so that the person himself also always listens in anticipation of the loud, rude step of an uninvited guest.

January was a two-faced month, jingling bells on the jester's cap, crisp ice cream, pure as any beginning, ominous as an old man, mysteriously familiar and at the same time unknown, like a word that spins on the tongue, but escapes at the last moment.

… There are people or actions from which in the end nothing remains that could be saved, because nothing echoes with you.

Life is an exact science in itself, with its own laws. They just need to be found and defined.

Happiness is a bit like flying, she thought, like you're a kite. Depends on how much you unwind the thread ...

... People often try to find something through sex that is much easier to find in other ways.

- Is there a word for this? A friend, a companion, or maybe just someone to share with.

- Fall in love. Or even wanting to make love.

- Perhaps a future that has no history.

Painting fills my life, taking away from the real hardships and troubles.

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.

He stood in the corner of the terrace, staring at the barely discernible line of the horizon, thinking of nothing, feeling nothing except a faint as in a dream, the feeling of loss and loneliness.