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“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.”

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Book:The Price of Salt

Source: The Price of Salt

“Carol raised her hand slowly and brushed her hair back, once on either side, and Therese smiled because the gesture was Carol, and it was Carol she loved and would always love. Oh, in a different way now because she was a different person, and it was like meeting Carol all over again, but it was still Carol and no one else. It would be Carol, in a thousand cities, a thousand houses, in foreign lands where they would go together, in heaven and in hell. Therese waited. Then as she was about to go to her, Carol saw her, seemed to stare at her incredulously a moment while Therese watched the slow smile growing, before her arm lifted suddenly, her hand waved a quick, eager greeting that Therese had never seen before. Therese walked toward her.”

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Book:The Price of Salt

Source: The Price of Salt

“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 might be dragged out together. She felt Carol glancing at her from time to time.”

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Book:The Price of Salt

Source: The Price of Salt

“...It had all happened in that instant she had seen Carol standing in the middle of the floor, watching her. Then the realization that so much had happened after that meeting made her feel incredibly lucky suddenly. It was so easy for a man and woman to find each other, to find someone who would do, but for her to have found Carol-”

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Book:The Price of Salt

Source: The Price of Salt

“What else mattered except being with Carol, anywhere, anyhow?”

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Book:The Price of Salt

Source: The Price of Salt

“Do people always fall in love with things they can't have?' 'Always,' Carol said, smiling, too.”

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Book:The Price of Salt

Source: The Price of Salt

“I'd had a little feeling of destiny. Because, you see, what I mean about affinities is true from friendships down to even the accidental glance at someone on the street-there's always a definite reason somewhere. I think even the poets would agree with me.”

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Book:The Price of Salt

Source: The Price of Salt

“What chance combination of shadow and sound and his own thoughts had created it?”

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Book:Strangers on a Train

Source: Strangers on a Train

“Her life was a series of zigzags. At nineteen, she was anxious.”

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Book:The Price of Salt

Source: The Price of Salt

“How indifferent he was to Carol after all, Therese thought. She felt he didn't see her, as he sometimes hadn't seen figures in rock or cloud formations when she had tried to point them out to him.”

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Book:The Price of Salt

Source: The Price of Salt

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

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Book:The Price of Salt

Source: The Price of Salt