The Silent Patient

by Alex Michaelides

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.

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive, and will come forth later, in uglier ways.

need to open my eyes and look—and be aware of life as it is happening, and not simply how I want it to be.

one of the hardest things to admit is that we weren’t loved when we needed it most. It’s a terrible feeling, the pain of not being loved.”

the pain of not being loved”—I

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

“A baby cannot hate the mother, without the mother first hating the baby.”

we soon discovered that geographical distance counts for little in the world of the psyche.