Sofie

“I always imagined that you might write something about me. I wanted to leave an imprint on your life. I don’t want to be “just another patient”. I wanted to be “special”. I want to be something, anything. I feel like nothing, no one. If I left an imprint on your life, maybe I would be someone, someone you wouldn’t forget. I’d exist then. (Marge’s letter to Yalom)”
― Irvin D. Yalom, Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy

“If one is to learn to live with the dead, one must first learn to live with the living!”
― Irvin D. Yalom, Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy

“Decision invariably involves renunciation: for every yes there must be a no, each decision eliminating or killing other options (the root of the word decide means “slay,” as in homicide or suicide).”
― Irvin D. Yalom, Love's Executioner

“That just seems to be the way we’re built.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy