Issy

“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

“I can't change what happened and that is something that I have to learn to live with.”
― Fleur Ferris, Risk

“Also, i realized that avoiding people didn't actually ease any of my anxieties. Out there in the woods, i still had to live with myself.”
― Val Emmich, Dear Evan Hansen

“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.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient