Strangers On A Train Quotes

“I know you have it in you, Guy," Anne said suddenly at the end of a silence, "the capacity to be terribly happy.”
― Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train

“But there were too many points at which the other self could invade the self he wanted to preserve, and there were too many forms of invasion: certain words, sounds, lights, actions his hands or feet performed, and if he did nothing at all, heard and saw nothing, the shouting of some triumphant inner voice that shocked him and cowed him.”
― Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train

“What chance combination of shadow and sound and his own thoughts had created it?”
― Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train

“أحب القطارات و الأماكن العامة فقط لامتلائها بالغرباء المريحين الذين لا يطلبون شئ و لا ينتظرون منى اكثر من صمتى”
― Ahmed Salama

“The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.”
― Jean-Luc Godard, Godard on Godard: Critical Writings

“One looked at people in buses and trains, when their bodies were quiescent and their minds somewhere else, in a book or a newspaper, or behind them at the place they had left, or before them at the place they were going to, and they seemed harmless enough, and so they were while you were looking at them---but what hadn't those apparently tranquil bodies harboured? Souls that had been jealous and angry and afraid and envious, even murderous, and the bodies themselves had been passionate, intemperate, greedy, agonised. People you saw in the buses and trains weren't really themselves at all, only the quiescent ghosts of what they had been, and what they might still be again.”
― F. Tennyson Jesse, A Pin to See the Peepshow

“Because some encounters are never meant to be permanent. They are perfect in their brevity and it is their fleeting nature that gives them meaning. Lucky is the man who realizes this; lucky is the man who loves every moment for what it is and never wishes for it to be any more.”
― J.L. Alexander, The Miles Between