Mary Thomson > Mary's Quotes

“I can’t take all the credit though because as all this was going on, Robyn, my eldest daughter, was tugging at my jacket loudly and frantically repeating, ‘Mum, Mum! Don’t hurt him, Mum! Don’t hurt him.”
― Mary Turner Thomson, The Psychopath: A True Story

“but it’s surprising how readily people are willing to believe a story, especially when they don’t have a chance to question anything.”
― Mary Turner Thomson, The Psychopath: A True Story

“If you keep somebody stressed, tired and in distress then they don’t think rationally, especially if they can’t talk about it.”
― Mary Turner Thomson, The Psychopath: A True Story

“I could certainly feel the pull of this man but my understanding of how psychopaths work protected me like a shield.”
― Mary Turner Thomson, The Psychopath: A True Story

“Narcissists, on the other hand, lack any chemical empathic response for anyone except themselves. So their whole world revolves around them and anyone they consider part of themselves (such as an obedient child or spouse – who generally realise that if they don’t toe the line they will be cut off with the speed and efficiency of a guillotine). A malignant narcissist takes it one step further in that the narcissist will actively go out of their way to destroy someone they believe has slighted them or not given them the godlike status they feel they deserve.”
― Mary Turner-Thomson, The Psychopath: A True Story

“My mother had once given me a huge piece of advice about my children – she reminded me that they are adults far longer than they are children and that I would want to have a relationship with them long beyond them reaching maturity. My job was to get them to adulthood strong, confident, self-sufficient individuals who were ready to face the world, and by the time they were adults to see them as equals.”
― Mary Turner Thomson, The Psychopath: A True Story

“in televised interviews of politicians with their avoidance of questions by using word salad and projection.”
― Mary Turner Thomson, The Psychopath: A True Story