The Silent Patient

by Alex Michaelides

The development of our personalities doesn’t take place in isolation, but in relationship with others—we are shaped and completed by unseen, unremembered forces; namely, our parents.

Our character was formed without our even knowing it.

we often mistake love for fireworks—for drama and dysfunction. But real love is very quiet, very still.

Love is deep and calm

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love that doesn’t include honesty doesn’t deserve to be called love.”