The Silent Patient
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Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive, and will come forth later, in uglier ways.
Sigmund Freud
Sayfa 61 - Orion, 2019
Tears collected in my eyes as I walked up the hill. I wasn’t crying for my mother -or myself- or even that poor homeless man. I was crying for all of us. There’s so much pain everywhere, and we just close our eyes to it.
Sayfa 68 - Orion, 2019
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
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Talking about real love...
“About love. About how we often mistake love for fireworks - for drama and dysfunction. But real love is very quiet, very still. It’s boring, if seem from the perspective of high drama. Love is deep and calm - and constant.
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“I never seemed to find the special connection I longed for. I had believed I was too damaged, too incapable of intimacy.”
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Somehow grasping at vanishing snowflakes is like grasping at happiness; an act of possessing which instantly gives way to nothing.
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Choosing a lover is a lot like choosing a therapist. We need to ask ourselves, is this someone who will be honest with me, listen to criticism, admit making mistakes, and not promise the impossible?
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