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Alex Michaelides Quote: “I also learned, from a young age, that I did not walk on the ground – but on a narrow network of invisible ropes, suspended above the earth. I had to navigate them carefully, trying not to slip or fall. Certain aspects of my personality were offensive, it seemed. I had terrible secrets to hide – even I didn’t know what they were. My.”

151. “I also learned, from a young age, that I did not walk on the ground – but on a narrow network of invisible ropes, suspended above the earth. I had to navigate them carefully, trying not to slip or fall. Certain aspects of my personality were offensive, it seemed. I had terrible secrets to hide – even I didn’t know what they were. My.”

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Alex Michaelides Quote: “Love isn’t conditional, It’s not dependent on jumping through hoops to please someone- and always failing. You can love someone if you’re afraid of them.”

152. “Love isn’t conditional, It’s not dependent on jumping through hoops to please someone- and always failing. You can love someone if you’re afraid of them.”

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Alex Michaelides Quote: “Whatever marijuana did for me was still working, Ruth argued – until the day it would outlive its usefulness, when I would probably relinquish it with ease.”

153. “Whatever marijuana did for me was still working, Ruth argued – until the day it would outlive its usefulness, when I would probably relinquish it with ease.”

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Alex Michaelides Quote: “Mariana no longer saw the world in color. Life was muted and gray and far away, behind a veil – behind a mist of sadness.”

154. “Mariana no longer saw the world in color. Life was muted and gray and far away, behind a veil – behind a mist of sadness.”

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Alex Michaelides Quote: “I bought an electric fan yesterday. I set it up at the foot of the bed on top of the chest, and Gabriel immediately started complaining. ‘It makes too much noise. We’ll never sleep.”

155. “I bought an electric fan yesterday. I set it up at the foot of the bed on top of the chest, and Gabriel immediately started complaining. ‘It makes too much noise. We’ll never sleep.”

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Alex Michaelides Quote: “I suppose what scares me is giving in to the unknown.”

156. “I suppose what scares me is giving in to the unknown.”

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Alex Michaelides Quote: “We need our mother to soothe our distress and make sense of our experience. As she does so, we slowly learn how to manage our physical and emotional states on our own.”

157. “We need our mother to soothe our distress and make sense of our experience. As she does so, we slowly learn how to manage our physical and emotional states on our own.”

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Alex Michaelides Quote: “Ruth always said that forgiveness could not be coerced – it was experienced spontaneously, as an act of grace, appearing only when a person was ready.”

158. “Ruth always said that forgiveness could not be coerced – it was experienced spontaneously, as an act of grace, appearing only when a person was ready.”

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Alex Michaelides Quote: “No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. – C. S. LEWIS, A Grief Observed 1 A.”

159. “No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. – C. S. LEWIS, A Grief Observed 1 A.”

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Alex Michaelides Quote: “Love that doesn’t include honesty doesn’t deserve.”

160. “Love that doesn’t include honesty doesn’t deserve.”

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Alex Michaelides Quote: “In order to be a good therapist, you must be receptive to your patients’ feelings – but you must not hold on to them – they are not yours – they do not belong to you.”

161. “In order to be a good therapist, you must be receptive to your patients’ feelings – but you must not hold on to them – they are not yours – they do not belong to you.”

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Alex Michaelides Quote: “You’ve come too far and worked too hard to return to a life of dishonesty and denial and emotional abuse.”

162. “You’ve come too far and worked too hard to return to a life of dishonesty and denial and emotional abuse.”

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Alex Michaelides Quote: “Paintings, mirrors, and framed photographs were crammed together on the walls; little statues, vases, and other objets d’art competed for space on tables and dressers. All expensive items, but crammed together like this, they looked like junk. Taken as a representation of Barbie’s mind, it suggested a disordered inner world, to say the least. It made me think of chaos, clutter, greed – insatiable hunger. I wondered what her childhood had been like.”

163. “Paintings, mirrors, and framed photographs were crammed together on the walls; little statues, vases, and other objets d’art competed for space on tables and dressers. All expensive items, but crammed together like this, they looked like junk. Taken as a representation of Barbie’s mind, it suggested a disordered inner world, to say the least. It made me think of chaos, clutter, greed – insatiable hunger. I wondered what her childhood had been like.”

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Alex Michaelides Quote: “As you will see, it’s an incredible story – of that there is no doubt. Whether you believe it or not is up to you.”

164. “As you will see, it’s an incredible story – of that there is no doubt. Whether you believe it or not is up to you.”

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Alex Michaelides Quote: “Life was a circle too, wasn’t it? – from birth to death.”

165. “Life was a circle too, wasn’t it? – from birth to death.”

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Alex Michaelides Quote: “As far as I can see, love only brings sorrow.”

166. “As far as I can see, love only brings sorrow.”

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Alex Michaelides Quote: “Snow is a very powerful imaginative symbol, don’t you think? Wipes everything clean.”

167. “Snow is a very powerful imaginative symbol, don’t you think? Wipes everything clean.”

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Alex Michaelides Quote: “We are drawn to this particular profession because we are damaged – we study psychology to heal ourselves. Whether we are prepared to admit this or not is another question.”

168. “We are drawn to this particular profession because we are damaged – we study psychology to heal ourselves. Whether we are prepared to admit this or not is another question.”

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Alex Michaelides Quote: “All expensive items, but crammed together like this, they looked like junk. Taken as a representation of Barbie’s mind, it suggested a disordered inner world, to say the least. It made me think of chaos, clutter, greed – insatiable hunger.”

169. “All expensive items, but crammed together like this, they looked like junk. Taken as a representation of Barbie’s mind, it suggested a disordered inner world, to say the least. It made me think of chaos, clutter, greed – insatiable hunger.”

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Alex Michaelides Quote: “Who knows what indignities we suffered, what torments and abuses, in this land before memory? Our character was formed without our even knowing it. In my case, I grew up feeling edgy, afraid; anxious. This anxiety seemed to predate my existence and exist independently of me.”

170. “Who knows what indignities we suffered, what torments and abuses, in this land before memory? Our character was formed without our even knowing it. In my case, I grew up feeling edgy, afraid; anxious. This anxiety seemed to predate my existence and exist independently of me.”

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Alex Michaelides Quote: “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.”

171. “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.”

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Alex Michaelides Quote: “I didn’t know it then, but it was too late – I had internalized him, buried him deep in my unconscious. No matter how far I ran, I carried him with me wherever I went. I was pursued by an infernal, relentless chorus of furies, all with his voice – shrieking that I was worthless, shameful, a failure.”

172. “I didn’t know it then, but it was too late – I had internalized him, buried him deep in my unconscious. No matter how far I ran, I carried him with me wherever I went. I was pursued by an infernal, relentless chorus of furies, all with his voice – shrieking that I was worthless, shameful, a failure.”

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Alex Michaelides Quote: “Except Mariana knew he wasn’t a phantom, or a monster. He was just a man, and he didn’t merit being mythologized; he didn’t deserve it.”

173. “Except Mariana knew he wasn’t a phantom, or a monster. He was just a man, and he didn’t merit being mythologized; he didn’t deserve it.”

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Alex Michaelides Quote: “That’s where all creativity is born, I believe – in the desire to escape.”

174. “That’s where all creativity is born, I believe – in the desire to escape.”

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Alex Michaelides Quote: “But our ability to contain ourselves directly depends on our mother’s ability to contain us – if she had never experienced containment by her own mother, how could she teach us what she did not know? 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.”

175. “But our ability to contain ourselves directly depends on our mother’s ability to contain us – if she had never experienced containment by her own mother, how could she teach us what she did not know? 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: “She sometimes felt she had been cursed, as if by some malevolent goddess in a Greek myth, to lose everyone she ever loved.”

176. “She sometimes felt she had been cursed, as if by some malevolent goddess in a Greek myth, to lose everyone she ever loved.”

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Alex Michaelides Quote: “It’s not about the coffee cup,” said Mariana. “It’s about boundaries, the boundaries of this group, the rules we abide by here. We’ve spoken about this before. We can’t take part in therapy if we feel unsafe. Boundaries make us feel safe. Boundaries are what therapy is about.”

177. “It’s not about the coffee cup,” said Mariana. “It’s about boundaries, the boundaries of this group, the rules we abide by here. We’ve spoken about this before. We can’t take part in therapy if we feel unsafe. Boundaries make us feel safe. Boundaries are what therapy is about.”

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Alex Michaelides Quote: “Reading about life was no preparation for living it.”

178. “Reading about life was no preparation for living it.”

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Alex Michaelides Quote: “Mariana’s mind went back to that poor girl, murdered by the marsh – whoever she was. Even if she wasn’t Zoe’s friend Tara, she was someone’s friend, someone’s daughter. That was the horror of it. We all secretly hope that tragedy will only ever happen to other people. But Mariana knew, sooner or later, it happens to you.”

179. “Mariana’s mind went back to that poor girl, murdered by the marsh – whoever she was. Even if she wasn’t Zoe’s friend Tara, she was someone’s friend, someone’s daughter. That was the horror of it. We all secretly hope that tragedy will only ever happen to other people. But Mariana knew, sooner or later, it happens to you.”

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Alex Michaelides Quote: “Now, I know only this for sure – the first half of life is pure selfishness; the second half, all grief.”

180. “Now, I know only this for sure – the first half of life is pure selfishness; the second half, all grief.”

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Alex Michaelides Quote: “We leak all kinds of information about ourselves unintentionally – by the colour of my socks, or how I sit or the way I talk – just by sitting here with you, I reveal a great deal about myself.”

181. “We leak all kinds of information about ourselves unintentionally – by the colour of my socks, or how I sit or the way I talk – just by sitting here with you, I reveal a great deal about myself.”

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Alex Michaelides Quote: “This whole mythology of us that I had built up, our hopes and dreams, likes and dislikes, our plans for the future; a life that had seemed so secure, so sturdy, now collapsed in a matter of seconds – like a house of cards in a gust of wind.”

182. “This whole mythology of us that I had built up, our hopes and dreams, likes and dislikes, our plans for the future; a life that had seemed so secure, so sturdy, now collapsed in a matter of seconds – like a house of cards in a gust of wind.”

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Alex Michaelides Quote: “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.”

183. “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: “But one day, all the hurt and anger would burst forth, like fire from a dragon’s belly – and you’d pick up a gun.”

184. “But one day, all the hurt and anger would burst forth, like fire from a dragon’s belly – and you’d pick up a gun.”

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Alex Michaelides Quote: “I feel better already – writing this down is providing a kind of release, an outlet, a space to express myself. A bit like therapy, I suppose.”

185. “I feel better already – writing this down is providing a kind of release, an outlet, a space to express myself. A bit like therapy, I suppose.”

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Alex Michaelides Quote: “There’s so much pain everywhere, and we just close our eyes to it.”

186. “There’s so much pain everywhere, and we just close our eyes to it.”

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Alex Michaelides Quote: “When I’m around other people, even if it’s only the bored waitress in here, I feel connected to the world somehow, like a human being. Otherwise I’m in danger of ceasing to exist. Like I might disappear.”

187. “When I’m around other people, even if it’s only the bored waitress in here, I feel connected to the world somehow, like a human being. Otherwise I’m in danger of ceasing to exist. Like I might disappear.”

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Alex Michaelides Quote: “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. – SIGMUND FREUD, Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis.”

188. “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. – SIGMUND FREUD, Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis.”

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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.”

189. “Someone who has never learned to contain himself is plagued by anxious feelings for the rest of his life.”

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Alex Michaelides Quote: “If you’re not aware of the transcendent, if you’re not awake to the glorious mystery of life and death that you’re lucky enough to be part of, if that doesn’t fill you with joy and strike you with awe, you might as well not be alive.”

190. “If you’re not aware of the transcendent, if you’re not awake to the glorious mystery of life and death that you’re lucky enough to be part of, if that doesn’t fill you with joy and strike you with awe, you might as well not be alive.”

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Alex Michaelides Quote: “She sat perfectly still, her spine rigid and straight. She looked like a cellist. Or a soldier.”

191. “She sat perfectly still, her spine rigid and straight. She looked like a cellist. Or a soldier.”

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Alex Michaelides Quote: “The painting was a self-portrait. She titled it in the bottom left-hand corner of the canvas, in light blue Greek lettering. One word: Alcestis.”

192. “The painting was a self-portrait. She titled it in the bottom left-hand corner of the canvas, in light blue Greek lettering. One word: Alcestis.”

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Alex Michaelides Quote: “No matter how far I ran, I carried him with me wherever I went. I was pursued by an infernal, relentless chorus of furies, all with his voice – shrieking that I was worthless, shameful, a failure.”

193. “No matter how far I ran, I carried him with me wherever I went. I was pursued by an infernal, relentless chorus of furies, all with his voice – shrieking that I was worthless, shameful, a failure.”

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Alex Michaelides Quote: “The truth is, I have many complicated feelings around going home, and being at the house, with Lydia and Paul. So I avoid going back – and I end up feeling guilty, so I can’t win either way.”

194. “The truth is, I have many complicated feelings around going home, and being at the house, with Lydia and Paul. So I avoid going back – and I end up feeling guilty, so I can’t win either way.”

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Alex Michaelides Quote: “Somehow grasping at vanishing snowflakes is like grasping at happiness: an act of possession that instantly gives way to nothing. It reminded me that there was a world outside this house: a world of vastness and unimaginable beauty; a world that for now, remained out of my reach. That memory had repeatedly returned to me over the years. It’s as if the misery that surrounded that brief moment of freedom made it burn even brighter: a tiny light surrounded by darkness.”

195. “Somehow grasping at vanishing snowflakes is like grasping at happiness: an act of possession that instantly gives way to nothing. It reminded me that there was a world outside this house: a world of vastness and unimaginable beauty; a world that for now, remained out of my reach. That memory had repeatedly returned to me over the years. It’s as if the misery that surrounded that brief moment of freedom made it burn even brighter: a tiny light surrounded by darkness.”

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Alex Michaelides Quote: “For some reason I couldn’t stop thinking about the homeless man. Apart from pity, there was another feeling, unnameable somehow – a kind of fear. I pictured him as a baby in his mother’s arms. Did she ever imagine her baby would end up crazy, dirty and stinking, huddled on the pavement, muttering obscenities?”

196. “For some reason I couldn’t stop thinking about the homeless man. Apart from pity, there was another feeling, unnameable somehow – a kind of fear. I pictured him as a baby in his mother’s arms. Did she ever imagine her baby would end up crazy, dirty and stinking, huddled on the pavement, muttering obscenities?”

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Alex Michaelides Quote: “Alcestis. Have you read it? By Euripides.” He gave me a curious look. “Read it. Then you’ll understand.”

197. “Alcestis. Have you read it? By Euripides.” He gave me a curious look. “Read it. Then you’ll understand.”

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Alex Michaelides Quote: “Alicia was silent again, and this time her silence would last forever.”

198. “Alicia was silent again, and this time her silence would last forever.”

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Alex Michaelides Quote: “Her eyes opened. It was as if the light had been switched on inside them. They were the eyes of a child, wide and innocent, free of scorn or suspicion. Color seemed to come into her face. Suddenly she seemed wonderfully alive.”

199. “Her eyes opened. It was as if the light had been switched on inside them. They were the eyes of a child, wide and innocent, free of scorn or suspicion. Color seemed to come into her face. Suddenly she seemed wonderfully alive.”

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Alex Michaelides Quote: “Boundaries, by definition, are the first thing to go when a child is abused.”

200. “Boundaries, by definition, are the first thing to go when a child is abused.”

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