Trauma Quotes

“Isolated people, those who live alone, are always conscious of their condition in the homes of families.”
― Patrick McGrath, Trauma

“I often wondered how it would be to tramp off into the mountains and keep going until I was exhausted, then simply sink into the snow and fall asleep. Then the wolves could have me.
To want to die in the forest and be eaten by wolves: another marker of incipient madness.”
― Patrick McGrath, Trauma

“We see nobody clearly. We see only the ghosts of absent others, and mistake for reality the fictions we construct from blueprints drawn up in early childhood. This is the problem.”
― Patrick McGrath, Trauma

“We coexisted in a state of mutual detachment.”
― Patrick McGrath, Trauma

“Our conversations were like sex, our sex like conversation.”
― Patrick McGrath, Trauma