An interesting paradox of the therapy process: In order to do their job, therapists try to see patients as they really are, which means noticing their vulnerabilities and entrenched patterns and struggles. Patients, of course, want to be
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“..the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and [that] thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past”
― Love in the Time of Cholera
― Love in the Time of Cholera
“How was it possible to miss something you longer wanted? Blaine needed what she was unable to give and she needed what he was unable to give, and she grieved this, the loss of what could have been.”
― Americanah
― Americanah
“If I die tonight it will be with every single thing unfinished (like, I suppose, any other night), and yet, what a gift to die on the verge of tears. I have spent my life trying to understand the way this rock and this ache go together, why a granite peak is more dramatic half dressed in clouds...,why sunlight under fog is better than the sum of its parts, why my best days and my worst days are always the same days, why (often) leaving seems like the only solution to the predicament of loving (each other) the world.”
― Contents May Have Shifted
― Contents May Have Shifted
“...her relationship with him was like being content in a house but always sitting by the window and looking out.”
― Americanah
― Americanah
“Read, learn, work it up, go to the literature.
Information is control.”
― The Year of Magical Thinking
Information is control.”
― The Year of Magical Thinking
Bibliomania
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Reading list for 2016 Bibliomania can be a symptom of obsessive–compulsive disorder which involves the collecting or even hoarding of books to the po ...more
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