The Talented Mr. Ripley

Date: 2022-06-22
| Tom had been shocked at the sordidness of the place, shocked that
| he even knew anybody who lived like that, but he had known that
| he wouldn't live there very long. And now Mr Greenleaf had turned
| up. Something always turned up. That was Tom's philosophy.
Chapter: Chapter 2


Date: 2022-06-23
| pitiful how naive he had been, how little he had known about the
| way the world worked, as if he had spent so much of his time hating
| Aunt Dottie and scheming how to escape her, that he had not had
| enough time to learn and grow
Chapter: Chapter 6


Date: 2022-06-23
| Marge and I are fine,' Dickie snapped in a way that shut Tom out
| from them. 'Another thing I want to say, but clearly,' he said,
| looking at Tom, 'I'm not queer. I don't know if you have the idea
| that I am or not
Chapter: Chapter 10


Date: 2022-06-23
| Dickie started to say something else, and didn't. He straightened up,
| the ribs showing in his dark chest. 'Well, Marge thinks you are.'
|        'Why?' Tom felt the blood go out of his face. He kicked
| off Dickie's second shoe feebly, and set the pair in the closet. 'Why
| should she? What've I ever done?' He felt faint. Nobody had ever said
| it outright to him, not in this way.         'It's just the way
| you act,' Dickie said in a growling tone, and went out of the door
Chapter: Chapter 10


Date: 2022-06-23
| To Tom, Dickie's polite cheerfulness on the train was like the
| cheerfulness of a host who has loathed his guest and is afraid the
| guest realises it, and who tries to make it up at the last minute
Chapter: Chapter 12


Date: 2022-06-24
| Then he remembered that he had decided to try to gain about five
| pounds, because Dickie's clothes were just a trifle loose on him
| and Dickie looked heavier than he in the face, so he stopped at
| a bar-tabac and ordered a ham sandwich on long crusty bread and
| a glass of hot milk, because a man next to him at the counter
| was drinking hot milk. The milk was almost tasteless, pure and
| chastening, as Tom imagined a wafer tasted in church
Chapter: Chapter 14


Date: 2022-06-24
| Tom had at first amused himself with an eyebrow pencil—Dickie's
| eyebrows were longer and turned up a little at the outer edges—and
| with a touch of putty at the end of his nose to make it longer and
| more pointed, but he abandoned these as too likely to be noticed. The
| main thing about impersonation, Tom thought, was to maintain the mood
| and temperament of the person one was impersonating, and to assume
| the facial expressions that went with them. The rest fell into place
Chapter: Chapter 14


Date: 2022-06-24
| lugubrious
Chapter: Chapter 14


Date: 2022-06-24
| Now, from the moment when he got out of bed and went to brush his
| teeth, he was Dickie, brushing his teeth with his elbow jutted
| out, Dickie rotating the eggshell on his spoon for the last bite,
| Dickie invariably putting back the first tie he pulled off the
| rack and selecting a second. He had even produced a painting in
| Dickie's manner
Chapter: Chapter 15


Date: 2022-06-25
| Believe it or not, old believe-it-or-not Ripley's trying to put
| himself to work
Chapter: Chapter 18


Date: 2022-06-25
| This was the end of Dickie Greenleaf, he knew. He hated becoming
| Thomas Ripley again, hated being nobody, hated putting on his old
| set of habits again, and feeling that people looked down on him and
| were bored with him unless he put on an act for them like a clown,
| feeling incompetent and incapable of doing anything with himself
| except entertaining people for minutes at a time. He hated going
| back to himself as he would have hated putting on a shabby suit of
| clothes, a grease-spotted, unpressed suit of clothes that had not
| been very good even when it was new
Chapter: Chapter 21


Date: 2022-06-25
| He couldn't give up the idea that it might all blow over. Just
| might. And for that reason it was senseless to be despondent. It
| was senseless to be despondent, anyway, even as Tom Ripley. Tom
| Ripley had never really been despondent, though he had often looked
| it. Hadn't he learned something from these last months? If you
| wanted to be cheerful, or melancholic, or wistful, or thoughtful,
| or courteous, you simply had to act those things with every gesture
Chapter: Chapter 21


Date: 2022-06-25
| He wanted to go straight to Venice, but he thought he should spend
| one night doing what he intended to tell the police he had been doing
| for several months: sleeping in his car on a country road. He spent
| one night in the back seat of the Lancia, cramped and miserable,
| somewhere in the neighbourhood of Brescia. He crawled into the front
| seat at dawn with such a painful crick in his neck he could hardly
| turn his head sufficiently to drive, but that made it authentic,
| he thought, that would make him tell the story better
Chapter: Chapter 21


Date: 2022-06-25
| He might play up Tom a little more, he thought. He could stoop
| a little more, he could be shyer than ever, he could even wear
| horn-rimmed glasses and hold his mouth in an even sadder, droopier
| manner to contrast with Dickie's tenseness
Chapter: Chapter 21