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Alex Michaelides Quote: “I felt safe, suddenly. I felt calm, and at peace – as if a raging fever had abated, a delirium burned itself out. I felt the other part of me, the good part, rising with the dawn...”

101. “I felt safe, suddenly. I felt calm, and at peace – as if a raging fever had abated, a delirium burned itself out. I felt the other part of me, the good part, rising with the dawn...”

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Alex Michaelides Quote: “I would, however, occasionally look up at Ruth’s face. And to my surprise, tears would be collected in her eyes as she listened. This may seem hard to grasp, but those tears were not hers. They were mine.”

102. “I would, however, occasionally look up at Ruth’s face. And to my surprise, tears would be collected in her eyes as she listened. This may seem hard to grasp, but those tears were not hers. They were mine.”

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Alex Michaelides Quote: “The truth is we’re all scared. We’re terrified of each other. I’m terrified of myself – and of my mother in me. Is her madness in my blood? Is it?”

103. “The truth is we’re all scared. We’re terrified of each other. I’m terrified of myself – and of my mother in me. Is her madness in my blood? Is it?”

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Alex Michaelides Quote: “I went to meet Kathy at the National Theatre cafe on the South Bank, where the performers would often congregate after rehearsal. She was sitting at the back of the cafe with a couple of fellow actresses, deep in conversation. They looked up at me as I approached.”

104. “I went to meet Kathy at the National Theatre cafe on the South Bank, where the performers would often congregate after rehearsal. She was sitting at the back of the cafe with a couple of fellow actresses, deep in conversation. They looked up at me as I approached.”

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Alex Michaelides Quote: “Unexpressed emotions will never die.”

105. “Unexpressed emotions will never die.”

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Alex Michaelides Quote: “No one is born evil.”

106. “No one is born evil.”

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Alex Michaelides Quote: “After all, everyone’s entitled to be the hero of their own story. So I must be permitted to be the hero of mine. Even though I’m not. I’m the villain.”

107. “After all, everyone’s entitled to be the hero of their own story. So I must be permitted to be the hero of mine. Even though I’m not. I’m the villain.”

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Alex Michaelides Quote: “Mental illness is precisely about a lack of this kind of integration – we end up losing contact with the unacceptable parts of ourselves.”

108. “Mental illness is precisely about a lack of this kind of integration – we end up losing contact with the unacceptable parts of ourselves.”

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Alex Michaelides Quote: “You can’t love someone if you’re afraid of them.”

109. “You can’t love someone if you’re afraid of them.”

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Alex Michaelides Quote: “Therapy isn’t just about talking,” Indira said. “It’s about providing a safe space – a containing environment. Most communication is nonverbal, as I’m sure you know.”

110. “Therapy isn’t just about talking,” Indira said. “It’s about providing a safe space – a containing environment. Most communication is nonverbal, as I’m sure you know.”

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Alex Michaelides Quote: “Remember, love that doesn’t include honesty doesn’t deserve to be called love.” I sighed, deflated, depressed, and tired.”

111. “Remember, love that doesn’t include honesty doesn’t deserve to be called love.” I sighed, deflated, depressed, and tired.”

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Alex Michaelides Quote: “He would have stuck by her-I knew that for a fact. A man never abandons a women like that. Not if he loves her.”

112. “He would have stuck by her-I knew that for a fact. A man never abandons a women like that. Not if he loves her.”

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Alex Michaelides Quote: “Love isn’t conditional,” Ruth said. “It’s not dependent on jumping through hoops to please someone – and always failing. You can’t love someone if you’re afraid of them, Mariana. I know it’s hard to hear. It’s a kind of blindness – but unless you wake up and see clearly, it will persist throughout your whole life, affecting how you see yourself, and others too.”

113. “Love isn’t conditional,” Ruth said. “It’s not dependent on jumping through hoops to please someone – and always failing. You can’t love someone if you’re afraid of them, Mariana. I know it’s hard to hear. It’s a kind of blindness – but unless you wake up and see clearly, it will persist throughout your whole life, affecting how you see yourself, and others too.”

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Alex Michaelides Quote: “Lloraba por todos nosotros. Hay demasiado dolor en todas partes, solo que cerramos los ojos para no verlo.”

114. “Lloraba por todos nosotros. Hay demasiado dolor en todas partes, solo que cerramos los ojos para no verlo.”

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Alex Michaelides Quote: “Psychotherapy had quite literally saved my life. More important, it had transformed the quality of that life. The talking cure was central to who I became – in a profound sense, it defined me.”

115. “Psychotherapy had quite literally saved my life. More important, it had transformed the quality of that life. The talking cure was central to who I became – in a profound sense, it defined me.”

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Alex Michaelides Quote: “Like therapy, music is about a relationship, entirely dependent on the teacher you choose.”

116. “Like therapy, music is about a relationship, entirely dependent on the teacher you choose.”

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Alex Michaelides Quote: “I think her behavior suggests she is quite damaged – lacking in empathy and integrity and just plain kindness – all the qualities you brim with.”

117. “I think her behavior suggests she is quite damaged – lacking in empathy and integrity and just plain kindness – all the qualities you brim with.”

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Alex Michaelides Quote: “My only hope of survival, I realised, was to retreat – physically as well as psychically.”

118. “My only hope of survival, I realised, was to retreat – physically as well as psychically.”

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Alex Michaelides Quote: “It was an odd feeling, a bit like recognizing someone – someone she had once known intimately, and couldn’t quite place where or when they had lost touch. The young man ignored the jeering calls of his friends. And with a curious, widening smile, he made his way over to her. “Hello,” he said. “I’m Sebastian.” And that was it. “It was written” is the Greek expression. Meaning, quite simply, from that moment on, their destinies were sealed.”

119. “It was an odd feeling, a bit like recognizing someone – someone she had once known intimately, and couldn’t quite place where or when they had lost touch. The young man ignored the jeering calls of his friends. And with a curious, widening smile, he made his way over to her. “Hello,” he said. “I’m Sebastian.” And that was it. “It was written” is the Greek expression. Meaning, quite simply, from that moment on, their destinies were sealed.”

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Alex Michaelides Quote: “We need to ask ourselves, is this someone who will be honest with me, listen to criticism, admit making mistakes, and not promise the impossible?”

120. “We need to ask ourselves, is this someone who will be honest with me, listen to criticism, admit making mistakes, and not promise the impossible?”

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Alex Michaelides Quote: “Yeah. And Alicia whispered something to me – I’ll never forget it. ‘He killed me,’ she said. ‘Dad just – killed me.’” I stared at Paul, speechless. A chorus of bells started ringing in my head, clanging, chiming, reverberating. This was what I’d been looking for. I’d found it, the missing piece of the jigsaw, at last – here on a roof in Cambridge.”

121. “Yeah. And Alicia whispered something to me – I’ll never forget it. ‘He killed me,’ she said. ‘Dad just – killed me.’” I stared at Paul, speechless. A chorus of bells started ringing in my head, clanging, chiming, reverberating. This was what I’d been looking for. I’d found it, the missing piece of the jigsaw, at last – here on a roof in Cambridge.”

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Alex Michaelides Quote: “I didn’t want to die. Not yet; when I hadn’t lived.”

122. “I didn’t want to die. Not yet; when I hadn’t lived.”

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Alex Michaelides Quote: “Without wishing to sound boastful, I felt uniquely qualified to help Alicia Berenson. I’m a forensic psychotherapist and used to working with some of the most damaged, vulnerable members of society. And something about Alicia’s story resonated with me personally – I felt a profound empathy with her right from the start. Unfortunately, I was still working at Broadmoor in those days, and so treating Alicia would have – should have – remained an idle fantasy, had not fate unexpectedly intervened.”

123. “Without wishing to sound boastful, I felt uniquely qualified to help Alicia Berenson. I’m a forensic psychotherapist and used to working with some of the most damaged, vulnerable members of society. And something about Alicia’s story resonated with me personally – I felt a profound empathy with her right from the start. Unfortunately, I was still working at Broadmoor in those days, and so treating Alicia would have – should have – remained an idle fantasy, had not fate unexpectedly intervened.”

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Alex Michaelides Quote: “What better way for me to prove that my father was correct – that I’m worthless and unlovable – than by pursuing someone who will never love me?”

124. “What better way for me to prove that my father was correct – that I’m worthless and unlovable – than by pursuing someone who will never love me?”

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Alex Michaelides Quote: “You can’t help me, her eyes shouted. Look at you, you can barely help yourself. You pretend to know so much and be so wise, but you should be sitting here instead of me. Freak. Fraud. Liar. Liar –.”

125. “You can’t help me, her eyes shouted. Look at you, you can barely help yourself. You pretend to know so much and be so wise, but you should be sitting here instead of me. Freak. Fraud. Liar. Liar –.”

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Alex Michaelides Quote: “So this was it. This was how it was going to end. Alicia was silent again, and this time her silence would last forever.”

126. “So this was it. This was how it was going to end. Alicia was silent again, and this time her silence would last forever.”

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Alex Michaelides Quote: “It’s been here the whole time – my past, I mean – and the reason it’s catching up with me is because it never went anywhere.”

127. “It’s been here the whole time – my past, I mean – and the reason it’s catching up with me is because it never went anywhere.”

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Alex Michaelides Quote: “At the time I didn’t understand. But that’s how therapy works. A patient delegates his unacceptable feelings to his therapist; and she holds everything he is afraid to feel, and feels it for him. Then, ever so slowly, she feeds his feelings back to him.”

128. “At the time I didn’t understand. But that’s how therapy works. A patient delegates his unacceptable feelings to his therapist; and she holds everything he is afraid to feel, and feels it for him. Then, ever so slowly, she feeds his feelings back to him.”

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Alex Michaelides Quote: “Someone who has never learned to contain himself is plagued by anxious feelings for the rest of his life, feelings that Bion aptly titled nameless dread. Such a person endlessly seeks this unquenchable containment from external sources – he needs a drink or a joint to “take the edge off” this endless anxiety.”

129. “Someone who has never learned to contain himself is plagued by anxious feelings for the rest of his life, feelings that Bion aptly titled nameless dread. Such a person endlessly seeks this unquenchable containment from external sources – he needs a drink or a joint to “take the edge off” this endless anxiety.”

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Alex Michaelides Quote: “He killed me’, she said. ‘Dad just killed me.”

130. “He killed me’, she said. ‘Dad just killed me.”

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Alex Michaelides Quote: “I know now that when I have an agenda for a picture, a predetermined idea how it should turn out, it never works. It remains stillborn, lifeless. But if I’m really paying attention, really aware, I sometimes hear a whispering voice pointing me in the right direction. And if I give in to it, as an act of faith, it leads me somewhere unexpected, not where I intended, but somewhere intensely alive, glorious – and the result is independent of me, with a life force of its own.”

131. “I know now that when I have an agenda for a picture, a predetermined idea how it should turn out, it never works. It remains stillborn, lifeless. But if I’m really paying attention, really aware, I sometimes hear a whispering voice pointing me in the right direction. And if I give in to it, as an act of faith, it leads me somewhere unexpected, not where I intended, but somewhere intensely alive, glorious – and the result is independent of me, with a life force of its own.”

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Alex Michaelides Quote: “Our character was formed without our even knowing it. In my case, I grew up feeling edgy, afraid, anxious.”

132. “Our character was formed without our even knowing it. In my case, I grew up feeling edgy, afraid, anxious.”

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Alex Michaelides Quote: “On some level, they became each other – they joined, like mercury.”

133. “On some level, they became each other – they joined, like mercury.”

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Alex Michaelides Quote: “I was a little taken aback, and immediately alert. ‘What do you mean, watching?’ ‘Just what I said. Watching. I told the police, but they didn’t seem interested. They made up their minds the moment they found Alicia with Gabriel’s body and the gun. They didn’t want to listen to any other story.’ ‘What story – exactly?’ ‘I’ll tell you. And you’ll see why I wanted you to come.”

134. “I was a little taken aback, and immediately alert. ‘What do you mean, watching?’ ‘Just what I said. Watching. I told the police, but they didn’t seem interested. They made up their minds the moment they found Alicia with Gabriel’s body and the gun. They didn’t want to listen to any other story.’ ‘What story – exactly?’ ‘I’ll tell you. And you’ll see why I wanted you to come.”

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Alex Michaelides Quote: “It’s a terrible feeling, the pain of not being loved.”

135. “It’s a terrible feeling, the pain of not being loved.”

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Alex Michaelides Quote: “One can’t help but wonder what their relationship will be like in the future, Alcestis and Admetus. Trust, once lost, is hard to recover.”

136. “One can’t help but wonder what their relationship will be like in the future, Alcestis and Admetus. Trust, once lost, is hard to recover.”

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Alex Michaelides Quote: “God hadn’t abandoned me during my childhood, when I had felt so alone and so scared – He had been keeping Kathy hidden up His sleeve, waiting to produce her, like a deft magician.”

137. “God hadn’t abandoned me during my childhood, when I had felt so alone and so scared – He had been keeping Kathy hidden up His sleeve, waiting to produce her, like a deft magician.”

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Alex Michaelides Quote: “Someone who has never learned to contain himself is plagued by anxious feelings for the rest of his life, feelings that Bion aptly titled nameless dread.”

138. “Someone who has never learned to contain himself is plagued by anxious feelings for the rest of his life, feelings that Bion aptly titled nameless dread.”

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Alex Michaelides Quote: “Innocent people, Mr. Justice Alverstone pointed out, tended to proclaim their innocence loudly – and often. Alicia not only remained silent, but she showed no visible signs of remorse. She didn’t cry once throughout the trial – a fact made much of in the press – her face remaining unmoved, cold. Frozen. The defense had little choice but to enter a plea of diminished.”

139. “Innocent people, Mr. Justice Alverstone pointed out, tended to proclaim their innocence loudly – and often. Alicia not only remained silent, but she showed no visible signs of remorse. She didn’t cry once throughout the trial – a fact made much of in the press – her face remaining unmoved, cold. Frozen. The defense had little choice but to enter a plea of diminished.”

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Alex Michaelides Quote: “I need to get out of here. I need to escape. Oh my God – I can hear him – He’s inside. He’s inside the house.”

140. “I need to get out of here. I need to escape. Oh my God – I can hear him – He’s inside. He’s inside the house.”

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Alex Michaelides Quote: “Adesea luam dragostea drept un foc de artificii – drept spectacol si ceva iesit din comun. Insa iubirea adevarata e foarte tacuta, foarte linistita. E plictistoare daca privesti din perspectiva spectaculosului. Iubirea e profunda si calma – si constanta.”

141. “Adesea luam dragostea drept un foc de artificii – drept spectacol si ceva iesit din comun. Insa iubirea adevarata e foarte tacuta, foarte linistita. E plictistoare daca privesti din perspectiva spectaculosului. Iubirea e profunda si calma – si constanta.”

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Alex Michaelides Quote: “It reminds me what sheltered lives we live here in the cloister – naive, perhaps even willfully ignorant of the horrors of the outside world.” Privately, Mariana agreed. Reading about life was no preparation for living it; she had learned this the hard way. But she didn’t say so. She just nodded. “Such violence is horrifying. It’s hard for anyone to comprehend.”

142. “It reminds me what sheltered lives we live here in the cloister – naive, perhaps even willfully ignorant of the horrors of the outside world.” Privately, Mariana agreed. Reading about life was no preparation for living it; she had learned this the hard way. But she didn’t say so. She just nodded. “Such violence is horrifying. It’s hard for anyone to comprehend.”

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Alex Michaelides Quote: “We need to be brave enough to sit with the madness, to hold it – instead of trying to lock it up.”

143. “We need to be brave enough to sit with the madness, to hold it – instead of trying to lock it up.”

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Alex Michaelides Quote: “If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me. Job 9:20.”

144. “If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me. Job 9:20.”

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Alex Michaelides Quote: “Sit down, then. But don’t talk. I’m working on the face.”

145. “Sit down, then. But don’t talk. I’m working on the face.”

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Alex Michaelides Quote: “I tore off a sheet of paper from a pad, and reached for my pen. An old habit, formed at university – something about the process of putting pen to paper helps me organize my mind. I’ve always had difficulty formulating an opinion until I’ve written it down.”

146. “I tore off a sheet of paper from a pad, and reached for my pen. An old habit, formed at university – something about the process of putting pen to paper helps me organize my mind. I’ve always had difficulty formulating an opinion until I’ve written it down.”

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Alex Michaelides Quote: “There’s so much pain everywhere, and we just close our eyes to it. The truth is we’re all scared. We’re terrified of each other.”

147. “There’s so much pain everywhere, and we just close our eyes to it. The truth is we’re all scared. We’re terrified of each other.”

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Alex Michaelides Quote: “Rage, like fear, is reactive in nature.”

148. “Rage, like fear, is reactive in nature.”

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Alex Michaelides Quote: “Lo quiero de una forma tan completa, tan absoluta, que a veces ese sentimiento amenaza con superarme.”

149. “Lo quiero de una forma tan completa, tan absoluta, que a veces ese sentimiento amenaza con superarme.”

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Alex Michaelides Quote: “Despite my best homicidal fantasies, I wasn’t a murderer. I couldn’t kill him. I’d have to think of something cleverer than that.”

150. “Despite my best homicidal fantasies, I wasn’t a murderer. I couldn’t kill him. I’d have to think of something cleverer than that.”

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