Gigi

“In real life, people with narcissistic personalities struggle with relationships and tend to die early. Occasionally they will seek treatment, but it is rarely successful because therapy requires trust and vulnerability, and a narcissistic person uses grandiosity and entitlement to suppress feelings of need. Controlling and belittling others brings them superficial relief, even if it means alienating people who might be able to help.”
― Gwen Adshead, The Devil You Know: Encounters in Forensic Psychiatry

“It’s no use beating the family drum. Sometimes families break apart.”
― Kathryn Ma, The Chinese Groove

“The problem with being an object of beauty, a beautiful object, is that you exist only when you’re looked at and thus to remain alive you must be constantly looked at, the way some sharks need to be in motion to breathe. It feels like soul death when their eyes are off you.”
― Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, Catalina

“Deceit is a hallmark of psychopathy, which is a severe disorder of the personality that I knew was associated with serial killers.”
― Gwen Adshead, The Devil You Know: Encounters in Forensic Psychiatry