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“...we often mistake love for fireworks - for drama and dysfunction. But real love is very quiet, very still. It's boring, if seen from the perspective of high drama. Love is deep and calm - and constant.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

“You know, one of the hardest things to admit is that we weren’t loved when we needed it most. It’s a terrible feeling, the pain of not being loved.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

“No one is born evil. As Winnicott put it, “A baby cannot hate the mother, without the mother first hating the baby.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

“We are made up of different parts, some good, some bad, and a healthy mind can tolerate this ambivalence and juggle both good and bad at the same time. Mental illness is precisely about a lack of this kind of integration - we end up losing contact with the unacceptable parts of ourselves.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

“The aim of therapy is not to correct the past, but to enable the patient to confront his own history, and to grieve over it. —ALICE MILLER”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

“يا صديقي؛ إنَّ الله رحيم، و من رحمته أنه أخفى القلب و أخفى بواعثه ليظلَّ كلُّ إنسان مخبوءًا عن كلِّ إنسان؛ فدعني مخبوءًا عنك!”
― مصطفى صادق الرافعي, وحي القلم

“القلب يتغير وقلب القلب لا يتغير والحزن قلب القلب - النفري”
― محمد بن عبد الجبار النفري

“علمتنى القراءة الطويلة المتأنية أدب الاستماع .. فالقارىء لا يتكلم وانما يستمع طويلًا وعميقا الى الذى يقرأه”
― أنيس منصور