“Choosing a lover is a lot like choosing a therapist. 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?”
― The Silent Patient
― The Silent Patient
“Trust, once lost, is hard to recover.”
― The Silent Patient
― The Silent Patient
“We're all crazy, I believe, just in different ways.”
― The Silent Patient
― The Silent Patient
“love that doesn’t include honesty doesn’t deserve to be called love.”
― The Silent Patient
― The Silent Patient
“About love. About how 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. I imagine you do give Kathy love—in the true sense of the word.”
― The Silent Patient
― The Silent Patient
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