Quotes from book

The Price of Salt

“I feel I stand in a desert with my hands outstretched, and you are raining down upon me.”

“What could be duller than past history!' Therese said, smiling. 'Maybe futures that won't have any history.”

“I know what they'd like, they'd like a blank they could fill in. A person already filled in disturbs them terribly.”

“I think people often try to find through sex things that are much easier to find in other ways.”

“What was it to love someone, what was love exactly, and why did it end or not end? Those were the real questions, and who could answer them?”

“It would be Carol, in a thousand cities, a thousand houses, in foreign lands where they would go together, in heaven and in hell.”

“But when they kissed goodnight in bed, Therese felt their sudden release, that leap of response in both of them, as if their bodies were of some materials which put together inevitably created desire.”

“And she did not have to ask if this was right, no one had to tell her, because this could not have been more right or perfect.”

“Happiness was like a green vine spreading through her, stretching fine tendrils, bearing flowers through her flesh.”

“Do people always fall in love with things they can't have?'

'Always,' Carol said, smiling, too.”

“She thought of people she had seen holding hands in movies, and why shouldn't she and Carol?”

“It always gets late with you. - Is that a compliment?”