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Alex Michaelides

The Silent Patient

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  • Little Winghas quoted2 years ago
    “A baby cannot hate the mother, without the mother first hating the baby.”
  • lzainebhas quoted3 years ago
    Remember, love that doesn’t include honesty doesn’t deserve to be called love.”
  • Emmahas quoted8 months ago
    I mustn’t put strangeness where there’s nothing. I think that is the danger of keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything, you are on the lookout, and you continually stretch the truth.
  • b6828346220has quoted2 years ago
    That’s the truth. I didn’t kill Gabriel. He killed me.

    All I did was pull the trigger.
  • Rakshithhas quoted4 years ago
    Once you name something, it stops you seeing the whole of it, or why it matters. You focus on the word, which is just the tiniest part, really, the tip of an iceberg.
  • Achilleshas quoted2 months ago
    painting was a self-portrait. She titled it in the bottom left-hand corner of the canvas, in light blue Greek lettering.

    One word:

    Alcestis.
  • Achilleshas quoted2 months ago
    He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may

    convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret.

    If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips;

    betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.

    —SIGMUND FREUD, Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
  • Lazyprincesshas quoted4 months ago
    Remember, love that doesn’t include honesty doesn’t deserve to be called love.”
  • Lazyprincesshas quoted4 months ago
    I felt an unfamiliar happiness just being in her company, as though a secret door had been opened, and Kathy had beckoned me across the threshold—into a magical world of warmth and light and color, and hundreds of orchids in a dazzling confetti of blues and reds and yellows.
  • Gungunnnhas quoted4 months ago
    There was no way out. And the strangest thing is, I felt relieved.
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